Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's rugby-like rules permitted a player to pick up the ball and run with it or pass it, unlike the Yalies' kicking game. Masculinely, the Harvard rules allowed a player to tackle an adversary regardless of who held the ball...
...range of topics was unlimited with the exception of Vietnam. "We will not discuss the war," said Capp, "but we will discuss either sex or educational TV. You can take your pick...
...openly discouraged any campaigning for himself in the state. Surprisingly, only 9% of those polled had actually met Romney or even heard him speak in person. But if Republicans were not buying this year's model from Detroit, they were enthusiastic about the "new" Dick Nixon. Asked to pick their candidates' outstanding qualifications, 52% of the Nixonites cited his "maturity and experience" and 40% his "sincerity and conviction." As for Rocky, perhaps partly because his name suggests fiscal solidity, 51% of those who prefer him cited his "ability to keep the economy healthy" while 32% thought...
...much has been done this year," Wayne S. Barry '69, another Associate said yesterday. "It's all been very informal--up to the individual proctors. If I had to pick a word I'd call the program nebulous...
...their relationship with the external world. But for other individuals, hard to distinguish from their fellows, the general confusions of adolescence mask a diffusion and despair not characteristic of a developmental phase, but indicative of emotional disorder. This differentiation of normal developmental crisis from emotional disorder, this ability to pick out disturbance but to avoid potentially weakening or infantalizing interference must be the concern of every educator and mental health worker...