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...conflict with Flashman stems from an altercation between Flashman, Sr. and young Tom before Tom ever set foot on Rugby soil, Flashman, Jr. is an evil, scheming individual, but he is his father's running dog, following orders and not just a rotten school bully. And much of the skirmishing between Flashman and Tom takes place outside of Rugby, involving outside allies that Flashman drags in to bedevil Tom. Rugby school plays a much smaller role in the TV serial than it did in Thomas Hughes's nineteenth century novel. The school is only an arena...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: School Days, Golden School Days | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...could be that everybody's recording, or rehearsing, or resting from autumn tours. But it seems as though nobody's inclined to play concerts in Boston. Just as well, the weather's been so rotten around here that it's all you can do to get to the library, let along slog into Boston, endure cops and fire people, and quaalude freaks just to hear Black Sabbath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop. | 1/11/1973 | See Source »

...looked at his fresh footprints in the almost ageless lunar dust, "I just choked up. Tears came. It was the most deeply moving experience of my life." Even the sometimes brittle Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, admits that he has changed: "I was a rotten s.o.b. before I left. Now I'm just an s.o.b...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Greening of the Astronauts | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...Liacos should have locked into high-level misconduct in the events following the death. "No blame for the illegal operations of the Cambridge Police Department is ever placed on Concoran's shoulders," the group said. "We think that Corcoran deserves is much blame as anyone else anyone in this rotten affair...

Author: By Harry Huri and Peter Shapiro, S | Title: Graham, Hard Times Blast Largey Report For Not Proposing Stronger Police Sanction | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

Such a case history sounds familiar and predictable. But May is no over-simplifier of the human heart. In conflict with power needs, most people push themselves through emotional hoops to maintain their claim to innocence. Oliver, another patient with rotten parents, had to get out of bed and dress according to a precise procedure. He believed that if he missed a step, God would punish his family. This ritual gave him a feeling of power, while allowing him to blame God for any mishap that might befall his parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Need for Power | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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