Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Number two pair Roberta Hing and Kirsten Beske gained momentum in the second set to down their opponents...
With Washington's victory, hopes were raised for a Mel King victory in Boston. Momentum at Harvard for King began last February at a Black Students' Association (BSA) conference during Malcolm X weekend. At the conference, a challenge was made to reawaken student social activism, especially in the Black community. Cynthia Silva, chairperson of the Seymour Society, explains that one theme that has been used at Harvard is the responsibility Black students have to the Black community. Students at Harvard have enormous class privileges. Black students at Harvard on the whole have these class privileges because the Black Community pulled...
This new Freedom Ride was so effective that the city-wide student coordinating committee decided to continue it every Saturday until the election But the Ride remains a small part of the momentum in the King campaign. After the primary several Finnegan offices, rented through November went to the King campaign: some of the minor candidates and Barney Frank endorsed King. Yet with all the serious concerns and high-level politics, the campaign field staff applauded enthusiastically when the students announced that the Freedom Buses will keep on rolling. Students sometimes fail to realize the influence they can exert...
...sister, and he and Bernstein, excellent by themselves, rarely convey the impression of mother and son. Most of the stiffness and bad timing evaporate once Norris as Weston comes onstage; the strongest personality of the four, he not only dominates the plot but brings most of the dramatic momentum with...
During the more than two hours of trauma and suffering, spiked by the occasional one-liner, that momentum fortunately grows. By Act III even the wet-washcloth quality of the pauses can't distract us, though the pacing remains subtly off--the end of each scene, including the last, comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this...