Word: prowesses
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West Germany's Bundeswehr, descendant of the once mighty Wehrmacht, is filled with slovenly, long-haired draftees on 15-month hitches. As for the U.S. Seventh Army, it has been more conspicuous during the past two years for its racial battles in Frankfurt than its prowess in maneuvers. Britain's volunteer Army of the Rhine, on the other hand, is the best field force in Western Europe. But with only 50,000 men it is too small to defend Germany's vast northern plain...
...their decision the trustees cited the B.U. Medical School's commitment to patient care. While Harvard Medical Schools is properly well-known for its research and teaching prowess, we hope that Harvard has not shown any slackness in assuming the basic responsibilities of patient care at its teaching facilities...
...Brown's School Days is a bizarre little period piece for a number of reasons. It is a schoolboy novel, and its focus is entirely on games, character-development, and athletic prowess. The TV serial's modest adventures into sex are nonexistent in Hughes's novel. But the virtues the novel is meant to inculcate are a bit different from the ones implicit in most modern children's fiction...
...Redskins boast the league's leading ground gainer, but their attack lacks the triple-threat versatility of the Dolphins' Larry Csonka bulling up the middle, Mercury Morris sweeping the ends, and Jim Kiick popping through the gaps in be tween. Both Griese and Kilmer proved their passing prowess last week, but if ei ther is injured, the Dolphins can bring in Earl Morrall, the best relief man in foot ball, while the Redskins must go with the less reliable Sam Wyche...
...Instead of rushing eagerly to cherish us and foster us. They all prefer this melancholy literary man," picks up in the second act a presence he lacked in the first, and leads his zany band of pseudo-Dostoevskis. Paul Scharfman and Douglas Hunt, on their futile quest for literary prowess, dressed one and all in outfits inspired by Poe out of Oscar Wilde to rival the literary out-of-itness of Bunthorne and his "perfect" rival, Archibald Grosvenor (Marc Jablon). They all emerge, in Gilbert's words, "perfectly utter...