Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Song and Dance. At the Lisbon TV station, one leftist officer was appealing for popular support for the rebels when his eyes started to wander nervously from the camera, as if his TelePrompTer had gone berserk. "They tell me I have to get off," he said. "It's probably for technical reasons ... No, it's not?" He was cut off, and Lisbon transmission was taken over by a station 175 miles to the north in Oporto, a conservative stronghold. The program switched from the hortatory sounds of rebellion to the happy song and dance of Danny Kaye...
More fireworks came a minute later when freshman Bill Horton scored with Harvard shorthanded. Captain Kevin Carr had gone to the penalty box for the second time, seemingly killing Harvard's momentum. But Horton blew down the left side and let go a slap shot that the NU goalie saved. Dave Bell just skated past the rebound, but Horton alertly followed up his own shot to give Harvard a 3-2 lead...
...worker, Sherman Holcomb, was in the Personnel Office, but for another reason. Holcomb is shop steward of the Radcliffe dining hall workers, and had gone to the office for a hearing on another worker's grievance...
...help parishioners and serve the Mass--but a hairline crack has developed in the structure. In another story, a new cathedral is built without keystones in the arches, because the architects want a "light and airy feeling"--the keystone, symbol of the timelessness and stability of the Church, is gone. The structure remains, but the well-defined relationships of a society are missing...
...when the young father has decided that survival of the fittest is indeed the rule of life, unethical as he finds it--all he can do is "accept his God-given limitations" and give up. Powers's bleak vision offers no hope. The traditional relations of the hierarchy are gone, and the only response left for the reader is a quiet desperation...