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...that now seems amazing. Kennedy took office with extraordinary energy and the highest hopes. He seemed in some ways the perfect American. As Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin points out, he exemplified two usually contradictory strains in American tradition. One is the immigrant experience, the old American story of the luckless or disfavored or dispossessed who came from Europe and struggled in the New World. Rooted in that experience is the glorification of the common man and the desire for a common-man presidency, a celebration of the ordinary. The other strain is the American longing for an aristocracy, the buried...
...second meet in a row, the luckless men dropped a close race to a team they were not even supposed to challenge. The harriers lost to Princeton by only 15 points (23-38), and beat Yale...
Like the godlike but luckless New York Jets. The Crimson will be appealing on limited basis over the next week. We'll publishing. Wednesday and Friday; and taking a mid-season break before returning February 2. Under new management, then, good luck of exam taken a drinking and studying don't mix. except sometimes...
...extreme cold's onset, "all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive." But as the cold settled in, White's "clear and congenial task" proved too much for some of the frail and the elderly, for luckless travelers exposed for too long a time to the bite of winter. By week's end more than 230 people had died, victims of hypothermia (low body temperature), heart attacks and a variety of icy disasters. By far the most tragic accident was the crash in Washington...
...Northern Ireland's civil rights movement erupted in 1968, both Callaghan and the Sunday Times proposed a bill of rights enforced by judges from Britain, the Irish Republic and the new state. Countering the oft-heard argument that British withdrawal would provoke a bloodbath, the paper said: "The luckless British army now provokes by its mere presence part of the bloodletting it came to stop...