Word: much
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, the draft process will remain in the hands of local boards-some of which will get much further down the list of birthrates than others...
...although Harvard was passing beautifully and springing wings loose on the outside lanes, it was having trouble finishing off plays, and despite its success in controlling play, was able to put only seven other shots on Groh. St. Nick's was much improved over its horrible showing at Cambridge last year, and it came to Watson Rink unbeaten in three contests. It did not take long for Harvard to realize that it was in for a hockey game...
...excess. He was, as one critic complained, a "chaos of clear ideas." He accused Shakespeare of being "barbarous," "unbridled," "low" and "absurd." Exactly. And that coarse strength is what we miss at last in Voltaire. By his masterly demonstration of the farthest reach of reason, he finally showed how much lies beyond...
...generations, most Americans have regarded tradition as something to be abandoned without much regret-like a too heavy saddlebag on the Donner Pass or a jammed rifle at Shiloh. That a man should live and die in the house where he was born, that he should take up his father's trade as a matter of course-these things have signified stagnation. Change has been our commonplace, our comfort and our proof of progress...
...kind of place in which an Englishman has always felt it his right and duty to live . . . patently the real country, untouched and genuine." Under this impression himself, Blythe, author of a novel and a number of television plays, moved nearby 14 years ago. Unlike other outsiders, he found much more than birds and quiet. Akenfield is the absorbing result. It is remarkable both as literature-a kind of Suffolk Spoon River-and as a sociological report on a par with Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, a journalistic study of poverty in 19th century Britain...