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...soul of America, actually did some good those four years. The man was a sparring partner for a nation struggling against the fat of Bicentennial complacency, always offering his glass jaw as a sacrifice to a nation worried about whether it still held the thunder in its looping left hook. Only now he doesn't fall so easily...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

Boston's failure to make the 1977 playoffs was expensive for Levin, despite the continually good attendence during the regular season. But a new franchise in San Diego gets Levin off the Boston hook and moves him out near his home and close to his West Coast business interests...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...Sidney Hook: Above All, Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Is Solzhenitsyn Right? | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, Hook is emeritus professor of philosophy at New York University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Is Solzhenitsyn Right? | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...album from there on, "When the Whip Comes Down." Jagger shouts from amidst a dense barrage of guitars riffing, and tells the story of a gay man who tries to make it in the City as a garbage collector. As with so many of the Stones' rockers, the hook is Mick and Keith howling the chorus, the only clearly intelligible words...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Stones Roll Again | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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