Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration, which seems determined to prove itself tougher on antitrust policy than the Democrats were, has lost an important round in its fight against corporate bigness. Last week a federal court refused to stop International Telephone & Telegraph, the largest conglomerate, from going ahead with one of the biggest mergers in U.S. history-the acquisition of Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The combination would raise ITT's assets by 50%, to more than $6 billion...
Salamanca, 45, teaches English at the University of Maryland. He explored the theme of troubled love under widely different and far more dramatic circumstances in his first two novels, The Lost Country and Lilith. Just because the Pritchards are so ordinary, the corruption wrought by self-knowledge in A Sea Change is more ironic and profound. In an attempt to provoke a return to the freshness of their early love, the Pritchards torment each other in various subtle as well as insidious ways-until nothing is left of their marriage...
...Supreme Court ruling on Fanny Hill. The decision stated that a book offending community standards could be proscribed only if it was found to be "utterly without redeeming social value." Had Wallace let this fact into his fabrication, the case of The Seven Minutes would have lost nearly all the artificial relevance the author so strenuously pumped into it. Instead he is content to conclude with incontestable banalities -among them the assertion that books are vital to civilization and honest men can have disagreements about them...
...latest Associated Press New England football poll ranks Dartmouth and Yale, who play each other Saturday in New Haven, as the top two teams in the area. Harvard which has lost two games in a row for the first time since 1962, dropped to a distant sixth place...
Before the Tigers lost their only meet to Penn last week. Quaker coach Jim Tupenny said. "Their top five men are as good as, if not better than Harvard's." Although the accuracy of Tupenny's observations have often left something to be desired in the past, Princeton does have two proven runners, seniors Eamon Downey and Rich Stafford. who could challenge Harvard's strong top four...