Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent a great man can control his autobiographer. With biographers he must trust to luck, and James Thurber has not been lucky. A couple of years ago, an academician named Charles Holmes produced a solemn literary biography called The Clocks of Columbus, in which he discerned, for instance, three levels of language in the 2,500 words of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Now comes New Yorker Writer Burton Bernstein with a drink-by-drink analysis, or bibulography, of the humorist's sometimes agonizing life...
...Crimson had one last shot at redemption, as it opposed Ivy leader Princeton and its 23-match winning streak. Harvard came close, and, according to Barnaby, "scared the hell out of them." But alas, in what symbolized this hard-luck year, the Crimson fell, 5-4, on a tie-breaker in the last match...
...thought we had a good team," said Barnaby, "but we were wiped out by fate and by our luck with those damned illnesses...
...Cher's fan club-girls who are sub-teen and even younger. For them she is, in the current phrase, "jive." Cher proves that at least one American dream lives: she gives evidence that show biz can still reach out among the adolescent millions and-with a little luck and a lot of hype-transform a mildly talented young woman into a hot, multimillion-dollar property. And that the chosen one gets to have inch-long fingernails for a trademark, if she wants...
...Crimson aquamen suffered an unbelievable series of mishaps in the initial day of the meet on Thursday. The divers did poorly in the one-meter diving, the 200 individual medley was a disaster, and the 50 free was visited with bad luck...