Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan of the book seems to represent a cynical reckoning on the reading public. It suggests that people will shrug off the question of an author's skill if their voyeuristic urges are satisfied. A less frenetic life probably wouldn't have been placed on a par with Lang's writing. Lurie's memoir leads you to Lang's work by way of a detour that impinges on her privacy unnecessarily. It is an approach Lang denounces in one of her verse-plays...
...Teamsters; Allen Dorfman, convicted in 1972 for accepting a kickback from a union pension-fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted for misuse of union pension funds; and some other figures linked to organized crime. After finishing the day with a respectable 92 on the 72 par course, Nixon retired to a recreation room for a private chat with a select group of fellow players and autographed scraps of paper for guests' children...
What all this means is that if the linebackers have to help out on the pass defense because Cronin is gone, then the forward line will have to hold its own against Fanelli and the running game. And with a sub-par Kurzweil, that could be tough...
...technical sense, this album is on a par with Dark Side of the Moon. This is hardly surprising, since it is precisely this technical perfection that Pink Floyd has pursued and mastered in the course of their existence. What is lacking above all is the inspiration found throughout Dark Side of the Moon, the quality which transforms a good work into a great one. Whether this inspiration will surface on their next album, one has to wait to see. I suspect the wait this time will be considerably shorter...
...Harvard football team begins its 101st season today with the same type of outlook with which it begins every campaign: question marks, uncertainties, and a threat to be either the Ivy champion (for the second year in a row) or just another sub-par football squad. But what distinguishes this year's masquerade ball from those of the past is that the entire Ivy League will be at the same party. Nobody knows how strong anybody else is; no coach will claim to be the favorite, yet almost all entertain some sort of hope that they, indeed, will...