Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rimers of Eldritch, by Lanford Wilson, is a little bit like seeing and hearing vignettes from Winesburg, Ohio set to the cadences and dramatic form of Under Milk Wood. Eldritch is a once coal-rich Midwestern ghost town, whose remaining citizens have become tiny little slag heaps of humanity. The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another. They use one of the weapons of the weak-their tongues-and the air they breathe is incessant and malicious gossip. It takes a crime for anyone to become visible in Eldritch, and the play revolves around...
...since 1578, when Sir Francis Drake sacked Cadiz and sailed away with 3,000 casks of the rich, golden drink, have Spanish vintners been so outraged by British treatment of their proudest export - sherry. In London's Royal Courts of Justice, Spanish and British wine merchants are arguing a question that, depending on who loses, could sour a big business. The question...
...ranks of America's future leaders should not, they say, be thinned by war. A related argument is that most of the men in college deserve to be there, that the university in America is more the haven of the intellectually talented than a refuge for the rich...
What remains obscured by most arguments for the volunteer army is that it will not, for the most part, include the wealthy or well-educated. That is the critical objection. It means that class distinction, even without 2-S, would endure -- simply in a less obvious form. Do the rich have the right to expect others to serve in the nation's military when they will not? It is the well-to-do who by and large write the laws, and it would be discouraging to see the well-to-do demand an end to coercion and then legislate themselves...
...first half, Harvard's six-point lead caused Yale to call a worried time-out. Then the Elis administered a zone press as Yale guards Rich Stone and Bob McCallum forced Harvard into numerous turnovers. Royer and Kanuth triggered a short comeback which cut the Yale lead from a high of 16 to the eight-point half-time margin...