Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early going, is the only middie to garner as many as ten points. Forbush, who connected eight times last year, is still without a goal this time around. Bobby Mellen, who got a goal a game in 1976, has been limited to half that this spring, and Gordie Nelson, a high-scoring attackman early this season, has gone dry since he moved to midfield...
...stickmen almost did. Gordie Nelson cut the lead to one, but Yale's 5-ft. 5-in. John Piazza answered for the Bulldogs. Jamie Egasti cut the lead to one again, but Piazzo fed off to Dave Stack for Yale's tenth tally...
...Most of us were members of the party then because the Communists were the only organized radical outfit," Nelson says. With the luxury of hindsight, it is easy to introduce questions about such topics as the excesses of Stalinism, but when reviewing the total of Nelson's judgments, he merely says, "Who is going to argue who is perfectly right...
...Nelson is a working class radical, not a fashionably left celebrity or secure academic, and he has sacrificed any chance for a comfortable, secure life in the support of unpopular causes. Few people recognize or appreciate the work Nelson and his fellow radicals have done and this seems to be a price he willingly paid. He does not speak harshly about his disappointments or opponents and instead, looks at the fruit which his actions helped to bear. What Nelson says about the effects of the brigade's actions in Spain on changing American opinion towards fascism small way we helped...
...Nelson does not argue over who was perfectly right and asks only that the members of the brigade be remembered as fighting fascism when few others would. Current politics and unionism still interest Nelson, but he, like a small, romantic group of American leftists, view those few years in the 1930s as a time of fulfillment, not defeat, and the clumsy poetry of George Orwell still bears meaning to them. Nelson calls the civil war the "high point of my life in the sense that when you had to be counted. I was not afraid to say I was there...