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...glorious and unbelievable meet. But unfortunately it proved to be Harvard's dying gasp in Eastern League Swimming. The freshman meet that day foretold a bleak Crimson future. The Elis, led by Steve Clark, crushed the Yardlings 61-34, setting NCAA, pool, and University records with reckless abandon...
...become our goddess-and has that one-eyed thing in our living room become our God?" Moved by the fist-pounding sermon, 450 people-a leonine blackbeard, a Negro youth, a golden blonde, hand-holding lovers-came forward to make "decisions for Christ" almost precisely in the numbers foretold by the slide rules of Billy's knowledgeable aides...
...With this and a pair of scissors, he created his last great masterpiece, the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence. With cut-out colored paper he designed stained glass, tile stations of the Cross, even abstract chasubles. In carving his colors with his hands in forms that startlingly foretold hard-edge abstraction, Matisse conquered the spectrum with his arabesque line. It was more than a homage to God. The chapel fulfilled in lines of color the lines of poetry that he loved best, a phrase by Baudelaire, which Matisse himself had used to title several of his works...
McNamara's critics feel that he might have anticipated the problem on his own; after all, a dozen years ago Army officers foretold the difficulties of sus taining a major expeditionary force in Viet Nam as an argument against going to France's aid in the Indochinese...
...need to torture the no-Resurrection theory into some form of support for Christianity, but he does not discredit Christ. Instead, he argues that Christ was indeed the Messiah-the Son of Man, as he thought of himself, but not the Son of God-who had been foretold by the Jewish prophets of old, and that this is glory enough...