Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flaw in Tarnopol is that as a book boy, he has "fallen in love with those complicated fictions of moral anguish" he keeps reading about. The depths of tragedy-that, Tarnopol thinks, is what an artist and a man must plumb. He yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol...
...great strength of Bailyn's book that it understands and apparently sympathizes with both sides--but especially with Hutchinson, the embattled loser--and yet acknowledges that the future and America's hopes lay with Hutchinson's opponents...
Harvard will resume its schedule Saturday at noon as the squad faces Providence. The winner of that game gets a rest until sunday, while the loser must take on New Hampshire in a 3 p.m. game...
...Financially, the biggest calamity has been the soaring price of jet fuel brought on by the Arab oil offensive. Prices rose so high during the last quarter of 1973 that what had been expected to be Pan Am's first profitable year since 1969 turned into another big loser. Prospects for 1974 are so grim that Pan Am and Trans World Airlines, the other major U.S. international airline, have taken the unusual step of appealing to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to pool some overseas services and to the Congress for subsidies that could total $360 million...
...under way, a struggle which will determine whether the United States will continue to exist or not. But in essence the battle between the Democrats and Republicans is like a circus wrestling match. The wrestlers arrange in advance who will be the winner and who will be the loser-before they even enter the arena. Of course, I'm not saying that the outcome of an American election is actually prearranged by the two candidates, but they're both representatives of the capitalist circles which nominated them; and everyone knows that the foundation of capitalism will...