Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first rationale lay behind Soviet behavior, they blundered. When the Soviet foreign minister on September 19 handed President Reagan a note from General Secretary Gorbachev asking for a brief tete-a-tete sometime soon, the President was quick to decline. "Not until Nick Daniloff is once again a free man!" he said...
...analysts and pundits were quick to whip out their balance sheets and try to figure out who won this round of the superpower game. "Keeping Score" is how the Times called attention to two stories--one from Washington, one from Moscow--that tried to do just that. Of course, the usual suspects were rounded up and asked to comment. And, also of course, the usual right-wing kooks--some of whom unfortunately happen to hold Senate seats--were aghast...
Harvard, with quick forwards Cindi Ersek, Kate Felsen and Nicole Simourian, was looking to use its speed on the artificial turf. But Penn proved to be a masterful turf team, often flipping past the Harvard defense and bombarding Katsias with shots...
...bright spot for the Crimson is that it has a history of playing especially tough against the Tribe. Last year, the underdog gridders seemed to have sealed at least a tie with the visitors from Virginia until a Rufus Jones fumble led to a lightening-quick Tribe score with 2:08 left in the game...
...movement, "Diaspora Dances," is more conventional but no less eclectic. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are given numerical values, which serve as the music's metrical underpinning. The exotic sounds of ancient Palestine mingle with the plaintive songs of the shtetl and the joyous urgency of jazz, encompassing in quick sketches Jewish music through the ages. Only Bernstein would try something like this, and only he could get away with it. Emotionally undisciplined, Jubilee Games is no masterpiece, but it is fresh and powerful, and one of Bernstein's most honest pieces in years...