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...final note for those who may be wondering: An anvil shooting contest involves placing one anvil atop another, with black powder in between, and setting a fuse to the powder...
...year things were supposed to happen for Harvard basketball. After a three-year fuse, the fireworks of seniors Brown and Lewis were supposed to explode in a breathtaking display of basketball brilliance. The performance of these two seniors, along with those of Jenkins and Fitzsimmons, whom most people figured would be two of the top juniors in the country, was to skyrocket Harvard into Ivy League and national prominence. But the fireworks that the Harvard community had awaited for over three years with eager anticipation did not explode. Instead they fizzled miserably, and Harvard stumbled...
...nations, are growing more and more sympathetic to the idea of total change. One bewildered Chilean Jesuit sighs: "We don't seem to believe in the same Gospels." Peru's Father Luna Victoria, a prominent Latin American Jesuit intellectual, hopes for a more evolutionary kind of change that would fuse the thought of Teilhard de Chardin with that of Marx. "It could be done," he says, "if we substitute Christian love for Marxist class hatred...
TRUFFAUT must, for the sake of reconciling his complex plot with his use of the comic, fuse his pasts and presents. The flashback technique is phased out by removing the interview scenes, which finally involve Stanislas in the comic action of the film. The first two-thirds of the film are episodic, a series of connected vignettes...
...fact, Wilson is the only fuse still lit here. Yesterday he began to enforce a tribal council resolution ordering all "non-residents" off the reservation. The resolution, approved by the Interior Department in Washington, was directed specifically at Adams...