Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built on the symbiosis of Dale Carnegie and Billy Graham. These national superstitions have been prolonged in Agnew beyond their natural life by his blighting prosperity, his deals and millionaire pals, his anachronistic Main Street of steel and neon (replacing the old stone and shingle), his crippling good luck and gods who blind him with blessings...
...UNWITTING alliance between Mumford and student radicals seems particularly unlikely, but fits into the pattern of Mumford's blend of eras. Mumford, the crusty scholar born in 1895, considers it a stroke of luck that he waited until the student revolt had matured to start writing his twenty-fourth volume, the second part of The Myth of the Machine (the first part appeared last year). "I'm entirely sympathetic with the students," he says bluntly. "Everything they're asking is long over...
...With luck and hard work," says Arthur Clarke, the dean of science-fiction writers, "we have a chance to see the final end of the Dark Ages." It seems an irresistible vision, a Faustian grand finale for rational humanist...
...Harvard basketball team starts the only part of its season that counts tonight at the Palestra in Philadelphia against the University of Pennsylvania. This is the Ivy opener for a Crimson team, full of spirit but short on luck, and the players are confident they are ready...
Harvard could very easily be over-confident for tonight's game if it had not had such last an unexpectedly rough time in its last outing. The Bruins have had little luck since Harvard shocked them with its come-from-behind victory, not winning a single game...