Word: fold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget surplus was not to be long-lived, but it tended to demonstrate that The Crimson was a viable enterprise, not likely to fold up under an economic gale. As the paper rounded the corner into the 1880s, it seemed fairly sure of its place at Harvard...
However, the Crimson did not fold. They did not play sluggishly, or carelessly, and they did not collapse in the third period. They outskated and outshot Cornell in every period. It's true that Harvard did not play an outstanding game. The second defense of Bobby Muse, Dave Hands, and Levy Byrd missed injured Doug Elliott and made a few costly mistakes, and goalie Joe Bertagna let in a junk goal. The power play was not as sharp as usual, capitalizing on only one of nine opportunities (and then only after the game was lost). Cornell penalty killers shut...
Snatching the power of selection from the viewers, the Nixon plan places it squarely in the lap of an unspecified Federal official who will use ambiguous criteria to extort platitudes and placebos from the national media. Local stations would have to pass muster or fold; even the station managers who agree with Whitehead's philosophy would pressure the networks to share the responsibility for modifying programming in 'line with the President's standards. Through this indirect, but potent mechanism, the press freedom of natural networks would be hedged in by Federal intimidation and fenced in by Federal penalty...
...same amount. With equal fatality, the new plays of the year came and, for the most part, went. Average losses: $200,000. Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business, which closed last week after 40 performances, was the sixth play of the season to fold...
...with the setting sun and must be fought again the very next day. Man and his toil-Sisyphus agonistes. Men put up a tent for a wedding party and then take it down. That is all that happens, and it is like watching an entire life unfold and then fold...