Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crop, each can count on being about $1,500 richer. In the barracks at the Bolton orchards, the Jamaicans celebrate the end of the harvest by passing around a bottle of blackberry brandy, a favorite that they break out only on rare occasions. Vernon Spaulding, 44, is looking forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done for the past ten years, he will spend the winter in Florida cutting sugar cane ?backbreaking ground-level work that makes the loftier labor...
...walked upright. Its foramen magnum, the hole through which the spinal cord enters the skull, was not in the rear of the skull as it is in an ape or any other animal that walks on all fours; as with Neanderthal. Peking and Java men, it was far enough forward in the skull to indicate that the spinal column was usually in a vertical position and that the young primate had been bipedal...
...Wars. The film is not perfect, but, like Stanley Kubrick's similar (if far chillier) 2001: A Space Odyssey, it uses science fiction thrills to seduce the audience into looking at the cosmos metaphysically. Close Encounters is, moreover, its creator's highly personal statement about mankind's next leap forward...
...well. Such is life when the preceding weekend has witnessed your worst prediction showing of the year, your career record has dropped below the .800 mark, and you realize that a few hours from now you'll never have a Harvard home football game to look forward to as an undergraduate...
Someone once told me, though, that it was better to look forward than backward, which brings us to this week's games, the toughest group of contests in memory. Also, my momentum, I'm afraid, has departed, and as a result, an 0-4 showing today is quite possible...