Word: marcheses
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HARVARD WAS quiet last Spring. The turbulent ever is of the past few years--building seizures, picket lines spewing invective, trashing marches all disappeared, leaving behind only faint memories, seniors regaling freshmen with tales of the past in dining halls and library alcoves. The electric ambiance of the past was...
The radicals, of course, were always more strenuous in their opposition to the war, but their participation in trashing demonstrations one day did not make it impossible for them to bail out of jail wash off the tear gas, and join a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was...
The radicals, of course, were always more strenuous in their opposition to the war, but their participation in trashing demonstrations one day did not prevent them from washing off the tear gas and joining a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was always characterized by several levels of participation...
Only in America could you fill The Golden Bowl with seltzer and sell it. Few writers have had the talent and self-awareness to exploit such a cultural aberration as well as Roth. He fizzed onto the scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness...
Down on the playing field, another version of time exists, Einsteinian in its complexity. Other sportsmen keep an eye on the minute hand, hoping to "kill" the clock. In baseball, time is subservient to circumstance. An inning may last six pitches or 80 minutes. Official games have gone 4½...