Word: placidness
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...either way, the fourth seed meets the fifth in the opening round, and the winner meets...Cornell. Cornell, regardless of its success in the playoffs, will go to the NCAA's, so Harvard, clearly, must win it all to go with the Big Red to Lake Placid. But to do it. Dr. Jekyll is going to have to be a little more dominant...
...late December at Lyndonville, Vt., Ferner easily won class B. and, as a result. was invited to the national training camp at Lake Placid...
Gage encourages student travelers to look past the tourist routes for a real vacation in Jamaica. "The placid tourists are led around by their pudgy, green wallets, so dazzled by the physical beauty that they rarely see anything of the real Jamacia," he intones. The real beauty in Jamacia is not in Kingston. "gasping and choking on it blood and its rum" and "exuding a mutant virility," but atop Blue Mountain Peak, where students can stay very cheaply on an old coffee plantation...
...jumping division, Chris Ferner leaped to a victory in the "B" competition by a substantial margin, and, as a result, was invited to the national training camp, held at Lake Placid...
...grow tired of the "late sensate" society and once again want a hardworking, hard-value nation, an "ideational culture" (to use another of Sorokin's terms). Pop Critic Richard Goldstein pictures a future in which college students, rebelling against the rebels of the '60s, might be decidedly placid and prim. "What if students opt out of the scenarios we have devised?" he asks. "What if the goals of our rebellion seem suddenly uncool? After all, every movement carries its own antithesis." What, in short, if the '70s are not sensate but square? Possible-but not likely...