Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announce it right here," Hubert Humphrey cracked at a State Department ceremony last week, "except that I think you've got enough trouble." His formal announcement is hardly even necessary, since the Vice President has been a hyperactive undeclared candidate almost from the moment that Lyndon Johnson bowed out of the presidential race...
Unlike the Celtics, who rely strongly on the rebounding of Bill Russell and a patterned offense, Los Angeles is a run-and-shoot ball club whose offensive strategy consists simply of feeding the hot hand" of the moment. "Organized confusion,'' is the way Coach van Breda Kolft characterizes the Lakers' style of play. Van Breda Kolff contributes considerably to that himself. A sometime N.B.A. guard (with the New York Knickerbockers) and coach at Princeton during the Bill Bradley era, he is a study in perpetual motion during Lakers' games-stalking the sideline screaming at officials, drop...
Despite their hot streak, the Twins at week's end still trailed the Detroit Tigers by one game. So they are not spending any World Series money yet But for the moment anyway, says Catcher Roseboro, "we're having fun out there...
...snow continue to descend sparkling in the policemen's whirling lights.") Death for Piet is not a future moment in time: it is time itself, and life is what Updike calls "a series of little losses" leading toward the dry well. Piet fights death by trying to turn time around, to recapture the past, to make manifest the heaven of nostalgia...
...also wants to play student sloth both ways. Wouldn't the same tendency that keeps students from doing any reading during the term, keep them from going to lectures with the final exam already out of the way? And certainly those long papers would be postponed until the last moment, making late springtime every bit the academic grind...