Word: renew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods...
...winners there is no Bulldog who can leap with Chris Ohiri, a consistent 23-footer in the broad jump and a threat to go right out of the pit in the hop, step and jump. The close events should be the shot put, where Chuck Merecin and Art Croasdale renew an old rivalry, the discus, where Harvard's Heps champion John Bakkensen and George Levendis are about even, and the high jump, where two amazing sophomores, Harvard's Chris Pardee and Yale's Kim Hill, are consistent at 6-6. But the Crimson's strength in the track events should...
...election was to renew the rubber-stamp National Assembly-which, according to Hanoi, also represents South Viet Nam-and the vote was of course neither free nor democratic. The slate of candidates had been care fully chosen beforehand. But the West, which gets precious little news out of the tightly closed country north of the 17th Parallel, watched the election carefully. The real outcome might not be clear for months, but which candidates were picked, and the margins by which they were allowed to win, might provide clues to the power struggle obviously going on inside North Viet...
...swim-gym syndrome. With 50 teachers and 700 students, it has a music school that most universities would envy. It runs a nursery school with a waiting list a generation long, a mammoth teen-age program of art, drama and discussion. It teaches thousands of Jewish adults to renew their religious roots, and offers everyone courses ranging from Greek tragedy to the psychology of love. To cap it all, 300,000 people a year now attend the YMHA's plays, concerts and poetry readings. It is the country's biggest Jewish center, perhaps the world...
...ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. A rich, arrogant British libertine comes to an Eastern university town to renew his affair with a faculty wife, is hilariously thwarted and discomfited at every turn by the colonials he scorns...