Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such luck. Carlo met his rommmate later that first night when he came back from the movie and found a pudgy kid with fuzzy hair and a New York accent sitting in his room playing poker with the people from down the hall. The kid was wearing a blue corduroy vest and a T-shirt from his neighborhood volunteer fire department, and he was drunk enough to be smoking a very cheap cigar without realizing it was burning a hole in the vest. The kid's name was Larry and he dad gone to a Catholic high school in Queens...
...stadium filled with students who resisted the army takeover, Victor Jarre, a young folksinger, is beaten to death, but he continues to sing "Venceremos"--we will win--until he is killed. Bodies floating in a river, bodies loaded on a truck--any U.P. supporters who survived did so by luck...
...Airport 50 years ago this week, may be difficult for the world of 1977 to understand. The minute he completed the first one-man flight across the Atlantic, the 25-year-old aviator, boyish yet reserved, became a hero of the world. He hated to be called "Lucky Lindy" - luck had nothing to do with it, he said, just skill. Yet he had intersected with history at precisely the right moment: technology and public mood conspired to endow Lindbergh with an almost primitive magic...
This place shouldn't be called Harvard. Rather Hard-luck University. Just check the stats on this year alone...
...dream on, Penn. Better luck next year and it had to end some time. I always had a weakness for cliches...