Word: polarization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barring an unlikely Bowdoin upset. Harvard and Clarkson will have a chance to fight it out in the championship game while Yale tries to avoid yet another loss as the Polar Bears lick their wounds in the consolation game...
Bowdoin is hoping to prove itself in big college competition with and upset over Clarkson. The Polar Bears went 19-3 with an entirely American team last year in Division II and beat four out of the five Division I teams they played. They are 5-1 this year, with a 7-4 loss to U.N.H...
HOPE PAUL'S trip was a journey to not one world but two. Australia and Asia are divided by more than the geographers' distinction of continents. They are antipodal cultures, the polar extremes that Roman Catholicism must somehow embrace under the same mantle. Australia is the Eastern archetype of much that is new, aggressive and materialistic in Western culture. Asia, comfortable with its own ancient religions, is the far older challenge. It is also an opportunity that Roman Catholicism-ritually more attractive to Asians than Protestantism-has in the past seriously bungled. Of the continent's estimated...
...last week's most surprising election upsets, California's flamboyant, fundamentalist educator Max Rafferty was denied a third term as state superintendent of public instruction. The winner is Rafferty's polar opposite: Wilson Riles, 53, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), soft-spoken authority on teaching poor children, who talked sense about teacher training and preschool education (TIME, Nov. 2). Riles became the first black ever elected to statewide office in California...
...Inter Ice Age 4, sophisticated computers concur in predicting that "the future would see a Communist society" throughout the world. At the same time, however, the polar icecaps have begun to thaw, threatening another age of glaciers. How then will an earthbound and capitalistic society survive? Abe sets up a group of underworldly scientists who aim, through biological mutation, to turn men into aquatic animals. These new creatures will live on underwater continents, safe from the looming ice age and the global Communist takeover. Ingenious, but even if it meant nothing less than the survival of capitalism, would you rather...