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Once gone, and often before, every decade migrates into the vocabulary of folklore. There it persists as a sort of handy hieroglyph for conjuring up popular memories of a time. So it is that "the '20s," as a phrase, evokes not only The Great Gatsby but more social lore than the entire text of the novel. Similarly, to allude to the '30s, the '40s, the '50s or the '60s is to speak volumes. In contrast, the '70s have not, so to speak, learned to talk...
...history of horse breeding to the time when the animals first entered the service of man some 5,000 or 6,000 years ago, probably in the steppes north of the Caucasus, the authors proceed upon a world tour of stud-farms on five continents. They repeat much delightful lore, including stories of Colonel William Hall Walker, who matched mares and stallions according to their zodiac signs and had a horoscope cast for every foal...
...corridors. They are hustling a cornucopia of aids to selfdiscovery, self-actualization, self-service, self-enhancement, self-assertion, and self-treatment. Equipment to facilitate what used to be called self-abuse, and literature encouraging its practice is also offered, along with energy pyramids, jogging shoes, biofeedback machines and ionizers, lore on herbology, kinesiology, esoteric breathing techniques, and organic sprouts from an outfit called Pinch of Love in Athens, Me. Mountains of books, too, by the star speakers and other luminaries. Sample titles: Stories the Feet Have Told Thru Reflexology, Rebirthing in the New Age. Here, in a continual flea-market...
...above all, Yale football games--or more properly,Games. They are contest that can make or break any season that have a certain magical quality to them (how elsecould an unheralded end named Ted Kennedy have earned a spot in Harvard football lore than by scoring the lone touch down in 1955's 21-7 loss...
...would take a mighty good day on the gridiron, but if all goes well and the Crimson racks up plenty of yardage, Brownie could replace Jim Kubacki in the annals of Harvard football lore as the total offense leader. Right now, he trails Kubacki's 3042 total by 321 yards...