Word: marvells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last time the two teams clashed, January 12 in the Palestra, Penn eked out a 55-53 win on John Beecroft's last-second shot. But last Saturday's miracle in Marvel Gym, Brown's one-point win over the Quakers, gives Crimson title hopes a shot...
...gives credit to Beethoven for his Symphony No. 5 in C Minor but not to God for the brain. In previous centuries men studied the brain and its functions and at the same time admired and acknowledged its designer. In our humanistic and scientific period, we admire the marvel of the brain and that is all. It is too bad because the scientific people who leave out the most important fact about creation do not know the satisfactions they are missing...
...artist becomes what he beholds. It is not a familiar posture for Occidentals, but at least one can marvel at the subtleties of experience it left in the unperturbed tradition of Chinese monochrome painting. ·Robert Hughes
...could be, given a bit of self-discipline. She talks, after all, a fair feminist game. Men's minds are befuddled, their ideas are impossible, women frighten them--but then they have those "silky penises." The real sexual inequity is not that men have this great added marvel, a penis, but that "the female has an all-weather cunt. No wonder men invented the myth of female inadequacy." Women's only problem is jiving the need for sex with feminism. Sock it to 'em, Erica, baby. Show 'em what it feels like...
...annual marvel that the White House melts so beautifully into human form at this time of year. The gears of state slow, the political combatants quiet down-ever so slightly. There is much to savor. Billy Graham preached at a Sunday morning service in the East Room ("In the midst of all this chaos and crisis comes the message of Christmas, with all of its hope, good will and cheer"), and the soaring strains of Joy to the World and Mary Had a Baby rang out from the Army chorus. The White House staff, from lawyers to clerks, came together...