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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...next 38 minutes the two teams battled up and down the field, and it looked as if there might be overtime. No way, said UConn midfielder Moira Buckley, picking up a loose ball after a scramble in front and driving it past Crimson keeper Ann Diamond at 41:45 to ice it for UConn...

Author: By Mike Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: UConn Topples Booters, 2-1; Undefeated String Ends at 12 | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...much of its career, the world has functioned on the principle of predestined and even tragic inevitability. Most of the planet's religions are steeped in a fatalism that teaches acceptance of dira necessitas, the fearful inevitability of things. The Greeks' Moira, the Romans' fatum, the Muslims' kismet-all enforce the will of an otherworldly plan, against which it is useless to exert a defiant or creative will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: On Challenging the Inevitable | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...Williams, Carroll For Douglas Bryant, a Widener Carrel. And we'll relive the Battle of the Boyne again Led by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. And could we forget, at this gladsome Yule Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule? Courteousely our hats we'll doff, then. For Kenneth and for Stanley Hoffmann. Free, Moira, yes. And flee, Thanatos! While we drink to James Yannatos. A nice new Bible would be For Peter and Charles P. Price, loast Muhammed Ali, and his awesome fight skill, Then drink a skoal to toast, every cabbie, cop The working class hero. A collile, or a cocker spaniel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down the Hatch and Down the Chimney | 12/16/1971 | See Source »

...William Mooring, whose "Hollywood in Focus" column is syndicated in 41 diocesan newspapers, charges that "moderates" have been replaced in the ranks of Legion reviewers by liberals-"chiefly influenced by Jesuits"-who have an unCatholic tolerance for immoral movies. But many people agree with America's film critic Moira Walsh, herself a Legion consultor, who argues that something is still wrong with a rating system that can condemn a serious attempt at cinema art like The Pawnbroker for the sole reason that it shows a young woman baring her bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Changing Legion of Decency | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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