Word: needleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adams paced Harvard with 22 points, as a balanced attack placed six men in double figures. Lou Silver had 16, Arnie Needleman 13, Jeff Wheat, Lew Brown 12, and Mike Griffin...
Sophomore guard Arnie Needleman led Harvard with 25 points, followed by 6'8" center Jeffrey Wheat who racked up 24. Mike Griffin tallied 14 points and 18 assists The Crimson, now 5-0, battles Northeastern on February...
Another dimension of that orientation is sketched by Religion Scholar Jacob Needleman, author of The New Religions and, like Thompson, a cartographer of the revival of mysticism. Men lost a certain humility, Needleman says, when they abandoned the medieval idea of geocentrism-the belief that the earth is surrounded by ever widening spheres of planets, stars and finally God. Copernicus and Galileo dislodged the earth from the astronomical center of the universe, but Needleman argues that geocentrism "was never intended only as an astronomical theory. It was meant to communicate that human existence is but a tiny part...
...Needleman's view, the optimism of modern science created instead a kind of psychological geocentrism, which misled man into believing that he could understand all reality at an ordinary level of consciousness. Earth was no longer to be at the center of the universe, but man's ego was. Now this attitude, too, has been dislodged by the wars and other depredations of the present century. The new surge of wonder that is at least partly the work of the Apollos provides men with an opportunity to recapture at last a true sense of their place...
...Wales narrowed the Crimson lead to two points late in the game. The tying basket was nullified by a hotly contested call of traveling against Johnson and Wales with 1:04 remaining. During the next minute. Harvard did not get rattled in the face of a full-court press. Needleman hit in a one and one situation to ice the game, giving Harvard a four point lead with 40 seconds to play...