Word: haunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poems, Chingkangshan Revisited, is a characteristically Maoist bit of revolutionary exhortation. "I have long aspired to reach for the clouds," Mao says, as he returns in his mind to the mountainous spot ("our old haunt") in Kiangsi province where his rural revolution got started. His visit reminds him of the vastness of humankind's potential...
...lead against Boston College last Wednesday night disappeared in the final four minutes of the game, as early-season defensive lapses returned to haunt Harvard. The teams battled through a scoreless ten minute sudden death period. The dead-lock did little to improve the Crimson's lowly perch of 15th (out of 17) in the ECAC standings...
Though the battle for coeducation is pretty much won, vestiges of all-male days remain to haunt campus feminists. One example: the unabashedly male-chauvinist wording of Penn State's Alma Mater. The anthem's phrase "Thou didst mold us, dear old State," recently lost its refrain "Into men, into men." "When we stood at boyhood's gate" emerged unisexually as "childhood's gate." Elsewhere, however, sexism yet sounds hi full voice. At Princeton football games, for example, "her sons" still give "three cheers for Old Nassau." Princeton Recording Secretary Fred Fox says that if "sons...
...theme of Lampost Reunion by Louis La Russo II, and it is a first play of some consequence. The reunion is in a bar. The hero is Fred Santoro (Gabriel Dell), whose career and fame resemble Frank Sinatra's. He and his henchman (George Pollock) drift into a haunt that Santoro shared with a gang of cronies (mostly Hoboken, N.J., Italian-Americans) some 20 years before...
...take on some of the characteristics of the State Department during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s: morale is falling, effectiveness is diminishing, recruiting is becoming tougher, and good men are wary of committing their thoughts to paper in memos and recommendations that might come back to haunt them some day. Last week the pressure on the besieged CIA continued with a welter of new accusations...