Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry Parker strongly denies that the boat suffered for it. "Mentally they were ready to race just as hard and just as fast as they had ever done. I don't think you have to explain being beaten by crews of that caliber...
Andy Larkin said, 'Perhaps if we had had Evans and if the race had been at sea level, things might have been different. But if we had rowed the next day, the result would have been exactly the same...
After the final race, in which Harvard finished last, Avery Brundage, the 81-year-old president of the International Olympic Committee, passed out the medals. In the traditional ceremony the boats rowed by the stands for their final push. Brundage, according to crew members, stood there clapping for fifth place Czechoslovakia and then, as Harvard rowed by, he dropped his hands to his side and stared...
...main strength of the book is in its tying together of these white and black problems. Inserted between chapters on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, is a section on the white race and its heroes. "What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains." Youths "recoil in shame from the spectacle of cowboys and pioneers--their heroic forefathers whose exploits filled earlier generations with pride--galloping across a movie screen shooting down Indians like Coke bottles...
...emphasis in Cleaver's book is on black/white phenomena in the individuals of this country, our society, and the world. He tends to ignore two things. First, he has long passages of bitter criticism of the white race for genocide and brutality. I think the was in Biafra shows that genocide is not an evil committed only by the white race. Secondly, Cleaver has an intricate description of the psychological hangups resulting from our divorce of mind and body. These are crucial to our self-understanding, but I think our psychosexual problems in America are caused by the machine...