Word: leading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed the husky Eagle forwards to penetrate Harvard territory almost at will, and a failure of the defense to come to meet the attack until it was too late plunged the Crimson into serious trouble throughout the late stages of the contest. So instead of increasing a two-goal lead during the third period. Harvard found itself desperately trying to keep from losing it, and ultimately, was unsuccessful...
Where does romanticism lead? In one of its incarnations, the romantic fascination with myth, tribe and race led, ultimately, to the barbarities of Hitler. If the "traditional checks on human nature should be removed," wrote Critic Irving Babbitt in his classic Rousseau and Romanticism, "what emerges in the real world is not the mythical will to brotherhood but the ego and its fundamental will to power." Yet romanticism also reconfirms the value of the individual. In many ways, the movement expands personal freedom, and the strength of liberal democracy owes a considerable debt to 19th century romantics, who championed civil...
Even as generals are better at fighting the last war than the next one, so prophets are better at extrapolating from the past than anticipating surprises. Could all these trends that seem to lead from the '60s to the '70s be reversed? Certainly. After all, the heady air of freedom in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I was suddenly stifled by the Puritan Revolution in England, and staid Victorian laws followed the carefree boisterous spirit of the Regency. It may be that the early '70s will see a period of repressive reaction against the Dionysian tendencies...
Certain staples of civilized life in the Western world-butter, for instance-may be in short supply simply because they will become too expensive to produce in volume. Otherwise, though, the '70s will be a decade with a food surplus, perhaps even a grain glut, that could lead to agricultural depression. Whether hunger is eliminated, however, depends upon the mechanics of distribution-a problem for politicians and economists, not for agricultural technicians...
...becoming obvious that Harvard's two-goal lead was almost meaningless in the light of its hang-on style, and another goal, while completely necessary, was going to be difficult to obtain...