Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...
...news of the day, or even--as another aspiring journalist, Karl Marx, once suggested--undertaking a ruthless criticism of everything existing. But all these things involve an attempt to learn from and about the news of the day and to report on it--not an imparting of wisdom from Olympian heights to those mired in the news's reality. The inadequacy of Lippmann's call for making journalism one of the "liberal professions"--presumably a special estate with responsibilities and privileges all its own, instead of a group of workers doing a job like everyone else--suggests the inadequacies...
Joining the Crimson ace at forward are sophomore sensation Fred Pereira of Brown, Dartmouth's premier playmaker Bruce Bokor, Olympian Santiago Formosa, a Penn sophomore, and the Bruins' Dan Frazier. Pereira led the Ivies in scoring with seven goals and three assists, followed by Bokor who picked up nine points, all on assists. Bullard ended up fourth in total scoring with six goals and an assist...
...Crimson, following Ford's Olympian program of one strenuous workout after another, has managed to build up a 2-0 Ivy record for second place in the League, but Dartmouth's aforementioned record has earned only third, tied with Cornell...
Shep Messing '72, a former All-American, and Olympian, who now plays with the New York Cosmos, and Phil Kydes '72, a former All-American, were among the alumni who returned for the game...