Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory margin, though relatively small, was much larger than any of the pre-meet predictions, most of which rated the meet as a toss-up among Harvard, Yale, and Army. The final team scores showed Harvard with 67 1/3, Yale with 59, and Army with 55 2/3. Penn was fourth with...
...French response to De Gaulle was strongly emotional, but the French are, au fond, a pre-eminently reasonable rather than sentimental people. So long as there seemed a plausible correlation between De Gaulle's aims and France's means, the fervor for the Cross of Lorraine held firm. But the moment De Gaulle got beyond what French common sense thought to be feasible, he began to gradually lose his constituency until finally it was gone...
...Since then he has made important contributions to China's nuclear-weapons program. Not that he was the only weaponry expert who moved into a position of influence in the party. Last week, as reports on the recently concluded Ninth Party Congress flooded out of Peking, the increasing pre-eminence of the military in China's politics was as easy to read as a big-character wall poster...
...Yorker was--had become something of an enfant terrible who seemd to be puckishly plucking away at the nation's G-string. For besides needling the New Yorker, Wolfe was also a satorial scandal. In mid-winter he wore white suits, in summer, bright orange--all in a definitely pre-Krackerjackian era. And the people he wrote about! People like Baby Jane Holzer, Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Junior Johnson--the very inhabitants of Confidential and Hot Rod who had usurped the right to dictate taste to a liberated, but defeated, nation, usurping that right from the likes...
...corrupt establishment, from Fine Arts (". . . the art historian at Harvard for the most part is working for and with the ruling class--for those that have time to acquire their particular 'culture.'") to Literature ("Little attention is ever paid to the communal or 'folk' aspects of literature, or a 'pre-capitalist' literature which expresses the myths and values of a group."). Now, a great deal of this writing is remarkably puerile, but it has the great virtue of holding together. It is all here, the pieces fit, it works. This is the general idea as expressed in the Introduction...