Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of a sophomore contingent that has made its prospects the brightest in a short hockey history, the Big Red has had its troubles this season, dropping seven out of nine contests. Nevertheless, Cornell, a team that used to lose to the Crimson by scores like 16 to 1, held the varsity to 3 to 1 last month...
...Drop of Ink. From his rigorous criticism of such peace mechanisms as exist, one might expect Jaspers to lose hope for the future. Quite the contrary. Fatalism and despair, he argues, rise from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty that all will be dropped or that every last man will perish. If humanity is blackmailed into totalitarian slavery out of fear of the bomb, there is also no certainty that in tortuous, labyrinthine ways, man would not eventually recover his freedom...
Unfortunately, German philosophers write like German philosophers. Intellectually, Jaspers is easier to lose than to follow. The reader has an uneasy sensation of being caught in a brambly thicket of dialectics. But the book has a staunch nobility of spirit that commands respect...
Reason would undoubtedly help man cope with the bomb, but the human situation is complicated by another monstrous threat-totalitarian rule, as embodied by Russia: "By one, we lose life; by the other, a life that is worth living." The confrontation of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., each bomb-laden, has led to panaceas, abstractions and frauds in the quest for peace. Peaceful coexistence is one such fraud, according to Jaspers: "Peace never comes from coexistence, only from cooperation." What happens under the formula of coexistence is that "one side is hiding its will to eventual world conquest by coercion...
George Hamilton looks like the Jimmy Stewart of the '90s. Actress Prentiss emerges as a deft comedienne with a style reminiscent of the late Kay Kendall's. Jim Hutton looks like Jim Hutton, a gangling young funnybones who already knows how to lose a laugh in order to win the audience. And Connie Francis makes a hardy, short-stemmed wallflower...