Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing center on the explosive sophomore line of Harvard's first team to qualify for NCAA championships since 1963, Cavanagh led the Crimson in scoring with 62 points--the most scored in a single season by a Harvard player since Bobby Cleary led the nation with...
When I was fourteen an acquaintance from high school took a dare. He climbed up the huge structure that supported a power line; it took an hour for him to reach the top, but from where we were below it seemed like an eternity. When he reached the top he waved confidently, then to our amazement there was a huge spark. Two hours later when the police brought his body down his metal rimmed glasses were molten slabs fused to his face. They made us see it. All that I remember distinctly of the incident in the absurd smirk...
...This line of argument approaches a mildly radical critique of political parties in this nation. It does not call forth the forces which would like to abolish and have done with the Democrats and Republicans...
...fundamentally this fear of drifting away from the medical mainstream that directs most of the plan's decisions -- including drawing the "poor line" at 20 per cent. In each of their moves, the plan's directors are conscious of a national audience. What they are trying to build is not just a plan for treating 30,000 people in Boston. Instead, they are piecing together a model that they hope can reshape medical systems all across the country...
Williams' writing is strewn with astonishingly true insights which range in scope from one-line revelations about our most major and complex artists (e.g., that Bob Dylan has always been at heart a rock and roll singer who started out in folk merely because there were no other options open to him in his early years) to finicky discoveries about the minutest details (e.g., that the Sergeant Pepper concept of a album as an integrated whole "can be traced back to the end of Between the Buttons"). And, remarkably, these multifarious insights are not stranded and left to fend...