Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychiatrist might say his sense of humor evolved out of necessity. Adopted at the age of two by Newspaper Tycoon Ira C. Copley, whose publishing empire included 16 newspapers in Illinois and California, Bill grew up feeling lonely and out of place. "My family believed that all artists are either Communists or homosexuals," he recalls. "Four years at Andover, four years at Yale, four years in the Army...
...Yale. You'd have to kiss your sister to top that... So there it is, Harvard, and when the word gets to your alumni that we are in the 20th century and there are other schools in the land besides Yale, don't feel bashful about ringing up the IRA." (June...
...when Penn failed to do the same at Worcester last year, it raised an important question. As long as Harvard stays out of the IRA championships in favor of its four-mile race with Yale on the same day, which is the better crew if each wins a race...
Last year, after beating Harvard so decisively at Philadelphia that most Eastern newspapers called it the end of the Harvard dynasty, Penn lost just as badly to the Crimson the next week. By the time the IRA race rolled around in June, the Quakers were a shadow of their former selves, defeating Dartmouth by only a length...
...devouring force. The cult began long ago, with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. In their nightmare Utopias, Brave New World and 1984, they depicted future dictatorships made all the more oppressive by relentless efficiency. The counter-cult has strong expression in modern science fiction. Example: in This Perfect Day, Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby, describes a futuristic society ruled by a gigantic computer, Uni, which calculates the most "efficient" assignments of careers for its many human subjects and, like a computerized dating service gone wild, even mates them...