Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Modern nations as well as primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous...
...criticized the substance of the Reagan aid cuts proposals many a time, and need not repeat those objections. But the President's five-minute sermon from the mount this weekend suggests an equally fundamental criticism: that on a topic as critical as federal education policy, he remains ignorant of the ramifications of his recommendations and uninterested in learning more: If the President's "working vacations" are only going to breed haphazard pronouncements on issues of grave importance, we'd just as soon see our Chief Executive eliminate the "work" from his vacations altogether...
...competing in the Greater Boston League this season, with games scheduled against MIT, Northeastern, Brandeis. Boston College and Tufts. Last year's disappointing 17-14 overall record, which included a 6-7 EIBL mark (fifth-place tie) featured a GBL championship, and this season's entry is favored to repeat, with a challenge from Pete Varney's Brandeis squad and the scrappy Tufts Jumbos...
...Holland. His Haarlempjes, or "Views of Haarlem," were also bread and butter; their usual format is one of the best-loved images of Dutch landscape-a wide, flat horizon, punctuated by a church tower, overwhelmed by blowing clouds and permeated by Ruisdael's mild northern light. They repeat themselves, but a man has a right to his own cliches-up to a point...
...year, things looked very promising for the Harvard men's lacrosse team All-American Brendan Meagher was back after spending last year on the sidelines with a knee injury and high school sensation Dell Dressel had arrived here as a freshman. The squad even looked as though it might repeat its 1980 season, when it shared the Ivy title with Cornell and made it to the Nationals...