Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposals. These proposals are an attempt to involve the rest of the student body, so they are watered down.... They are too weak to get our support...and are not even controversial any more. People feel that commentary on the proposals is enough. My feeling is that that's fine and dandy. Now back to business...
...final period was too masterful to be exciting. Denis Sullivan tapped in one at 3:53. Rosenberg called a huddle at the Crimson goal at 4:28 when they decided to put in another. Sullivan helped Red Jahuke score at 10:43; and to rap up a fine game Rosenberg helped Holmes put in the seventh...
...family would be called away, and no one knew how people would react to the tension of the war and "the preceding two weeks, which were really more tense than the war itself," he said. But, he continued, there was no problem, and "morale held up fine...
...that was that. Others, less sympathetic to Lowry, generally argued that the novel was "uneven." The first two hundred pages were deadly slow, they told me; only in the last chapters did things really begin to move. If you could get by the first two hundred, you were fine...
...wonder, especially after reading Dark As the Grave, whether Lowry was in fact just another writer with one fine novel in him. To write Dark As the Grave, he trudged back through the country, the town, and even the buildings that had plagued him into writing Under the Volcano. Through most of the book, Lowry paws around, at times almost dispassionately, in the relics of the earlier novel. What had come off as supra-human desperation in Under the Volcano now emerges as an occasional fit of pique...