Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lowell did not return to Harvard. Instead he followed Ransom to Kenyon College, where he formed lasting friendships with Peter Taylor and Randall Jarrell. From that point onward, his life becomes a turbulent, often sensational tale. He married writer Jean Stafford; after a miserable six years they split. For the remainder of his days. Lowell fell in and out of love with various women--his 20-year marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick was stable only in its endurance...
...must not shrug off the fact that 59 law students have figuratively crossed the picket line and enrolled in the boycotted class. The latter--who obviously care about civil rights -- is just the sort of group that must be won over for civil rights and affirmative action to press onward...
...Onward and upward with the arts. First he outsolemnized Ingmar Bergman with Interiors. Then, with Stardust Memories, he scored a modest 5 out of Fellini's 8½. Now Woody Allen has transported Shakespeare's "wood near Athens" to upstate New York at the turn of this century for A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. As might be expected, none of these homage-pastiches measures up to the original. But then, neither Bergman nor Fellini nor even Shakespeare ever tried writing a Woody Allen comedy...
...progressive state legislator who never realized his ambition of becoming a Congressman. Young Lyndon learned the art of the possible by tagging along as his dad cut deals and pulled strings, and when the older man turned to drink, Lyndon's iron-minded mother lashed the boy onward. She had him, at age four, reciting the Preamble to the Constitution for a visiting Texas Governor; when he was in college she wrote Lyndon's term papers...
There was nothing pretty or poetic about the win. Harvard simply turned the tables on the Big Red, from its aggressive, confident play on the ice to the chicken, fish, taunts and tennis balls that came from the stands. From Greg Britz' goal just 47 seconds into the game onward, it was all Harvard, and after beating Cornell only once in the last seven years, the Crimson now has done it twice in one month...