Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is a liberal arts scholar good for? The question, of course, has not been answered, unless it counts to discover that such questions can have no final answers. Plato's Symposium ends with a vision of Socrates standing fixed in thought from early dawn until noon, until sunset, until early dawn of the following day. The image may seem comic at first, but it be comes moving and finally majestic, even though nobody ever learns what Socrates was thinking. Plato gave the only explanation necessary. The unexamined life, he said, is not worth living. Meanwhile, back...
Paranoia has been running at a high level in the executive suite for months, and last week's events were hardly likely to reduce it. The final Nielsen ratings for the regular 1978-79 television season gave NBC its worst average in more than a decade. Johnny Carson, the brightest star in the insomniac firmament, was keeping network nabobs awake at night wondering whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid...
...twirled his best ball game in over a month. He retired the next thirteen men without a hit, and succumbed for only one more run the rest of the way when the top of the Cornell order parlayed two singles and a Bengochea sacrifice fly into the game's final tally...
...race for the lights on Worcester's Lake Quinsigamond will be the varsity final at 4:45 p.m. And as two-seat Mike Cominsky said, "We are going...
...Harvard golf team lost its final match of the season to Dartmouth by four strokes...