Word: jims
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Senior punter Tim Griffin moved into first place on the all-time list for punts. Griffin, a senior, needed only two coming into Saturday's contest to overtake the 164 mark set by Jim Villanueva '84 set over a decade ago. He boomed six, averaging 38.5 yards per punt...
Furthermore, there was a time in American history where mainstream society referred to African-Americans in nothing but deprecating language. Regardless of this fact, the African-American "race" survived slavery, Reconstruction, two World Wars and Jim Crow, all the while contributing to the material, literary and artistic cultures of this nation. The central point being that exposure to, or use of, deprecating language is not a sufficient condition for material or cultural failures...
...Braves cavorted amid the fireworks at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Saturday night after their 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians, they seemed to be shaking off the monkeys of their two recent Series failures. There was David Justice, who hit a solo homer in the sixth off Jim Poole; Tom Glavine, whose one-hit pitching over eight innings, coupled with his win in Game Two, earned him the Series MVP award; and Mark Wohlers, who dispatched the top of the vaunted Cleveland order in the ninth to give the Braves their first World Championship in 38 years...
AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF HIS first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), Kingsley Amis found himself pigeonholed as one of the Angry Young Men, postwar British writers from the lower classes who seemed bent on toppling the shaky but still oppressive Establishment culture. The label never fit Amis comfortably; he was, at most, an Irritable Young Man, more likely to hoot than to rant. His use of humor as a means of subversion proved remarkably effective and durable. Works during the 1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room...
...Lucky Jim confirmed Amis' ability to evoke such reactions in print. It also established the author's basic comic strategy: a beleaguered hero tries to behave inoffensively among people whose self-centered behavior drives him privately mad. This formula still sparkled in The Russian Girl (1994), in which a husband meditates on his wife's odd and affected accent: "After a time he had stopped noticing it at all more than a couple of times a day, and for years had given up speculating what speech-sounds she might make if, for example, he were to creep up behind...