Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...League went on a safari known as the Great Quarterback Hunt. As Harvard coach Joe Restic stalked the practice fields in search of a signal-caller, he didn't ask for the record-breaking passing arm of a Larry Brown or the wily elusiveness of pass-run threat Jim Kubacki...
...rallied from a 10-0 halftime deficit with ten third quarter points and held the Big Green scoreless the rest of the way. Jim Quinn paced the Wildcat offense with 89 yards on the ground, while Jeff DuFresne led Dartmouth with 107. The vaunted Kemp-Shula passing combination connected four times for 54 yards and one TD, but other than that the two teams showed precious little offense, as each punter kicked nine times...
...momentary defensive lapse allowed Husky sophomore Pedro DeBrito to take a lead pass from Jim Lyman, break away from the pack, and blast the ball through Blood for the final score of the afternoon with 6:49 remaining in the first half...
That's why the novel fails. The immediate temptation is to compare Styron to Conrad; Sophie is Polish, and there are even references, late in the novel, to Conrad's Lord Jim. Styron searches for good and evil, for the vestigia that demons leave, just as Conrad did; he may even be answering Saul Bellow's Nobel Laureate call for a return to Conrad, for a return to what Conrad called the "permanent, enduring, essential" in human existence. But Styron doesn't know "the horror." These are small shoes in the footprints of sasquatch...
...Carter's 24% in the latest Yankelovich, Skelly & White survey). But he knows he is a liberal running in a conservative time, and he is beginning to fashion his defenses. Says he: "Labels don't mean much any more. I introduced the airline deregulation bill with Jim Buckley, who was then one of the most conservative members of the Senate. I don't disagree much with Carter's spending levels. I wanted $4 billion more for social programs and that's in a budget of $580 billion...