Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This mini-five-foot shelf will not be the last word on Faulkner. The valuable tools of scholarship have not cleared a path toward the subject; they have built a fortress around it. What the hook's appearance signifies, however, is that the people whom Faulkner referred to as "academic gumshoes" have asserted their clammy hold upon him. In graduate classrooms across the country, students now will be required to read the book. Sad news, that, not only for Faulkner and his readers but for such writers as Pound, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, whose "definitive" biographies have...
...runs close to the surface of the whole book becomes suddenly brutal: one of these "baby chicks" is forced and hurt. Afterwards "her life look to be disgusting like a squashed fish, so what she did: she made up some power somehow and raise herself up that windowsill and hook herself onto it and then what I see, she just topple herself...
...justice. Returning democracy to Greece or preventing its overthrow in Chile are achievements that must be wrought by a partnership of a progressive government and an enlightened military. So while we work for the removal of Nixon from the White House, let us return ROTC to Harvard. John Hook...
Colgate has dropped four heartbreakers by one goal and has let a couple of teams off the hook, such as Cornell. The Red Raiders had the Big Red tied 3-3, going into the final half of the third period. Cornell won that...
...finally, the Crimson icemen let Cornell off the hook (a three-goal hook) to allow the Big Red to snatch a 5-4 overtime victory from the jaws of defeat. It was a game of breaks, and Harvard just didn't seem to get them the way Cornell did. "We couldn't have played any better," Cleary said...