Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense acquired a brutal glamor in the sport of pro football a decade ago, but Harvard's version over the same years has remained an anonymity. Think of the Crimson defenders and who stands out? There is no Sam Huff riding down the enemy's key runner, no Big Daddy Lipscomb flattening the quarterback, no Erich Barnes crawling inside receivers' shirts. And yet,-over the last 24 games, Harvard has held its opponents to 7.2 points a game, an average that would make Vince Lombardi green with envy...
...money, depend on federal antitrust pressure against dominant IBM for survival and on favorable income tax breaks for much of their profit. Yet a dozen companies, none more than 15 years old, have thrived so splendidly that computer-leasing stocks were among Wall Street's hottest glamor issues this spring...
Bedford-Stuyvesant New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant is in many way worse off than Harlem. Although it is bigger it has received far less attention than the "glamor ghetto" to the north. But it has a friend in Bobby Kennedy. Some think this means Befford-Stuyvesant has a future...
...Africans are often 'used' here; they tend to become status symbols. Cliffies especially treat them as symbols of their own worldliness and liberalism. Some feel that to be seen walking or dating one impresses the local community, and the fact that he is an African may just add more glamor to it. Free speech, free this, free that, is expected here, but it can throw curve balls...
...glamor and the clamor of it all got to Lynn, and one day she decided that horses really were not the answer. When Vanessa turned down a minor part in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lynn jumped at the chance to play it. In 1963, Olivier took her on at the National Theater, and she found that she could play for pathos (Brecht's Mother Courage) as well as waddle through twaddle (Coward's Hay Fever). Big things were expected of her?but not quite the sort of big things that actually happened...