Word: roughed
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...Blues; Paul lighting into That's All Right Mama and striking sparks off Carl Perkins' Matchbox. George gets to sing at least once on his own (a very snug version of Nothin' Shakin' but the Leaves on the Trees); and Ringo turns in an exuberant rough-house performance of I Want to Be Your Man. These songs all have the blind energy, nerve and joyful rowdiness of genius before history took over...
...Richard Reeves' brave notion to accomplish a rough duplicate of Tocqueville's tour, seeking out the same sorts of Americans-the mayor of New York City, the president of Harvard, businessmen and editors in quantity, and an embittered ex-President (John Quincy Adams for Tocqueville. Nixon for Reeves). The result is a spacious and thoughtful introduction to a classic. The author's theme is Tocqueville's: the national character formed in a state of fragile liberty by government, commerce, the press and the huge continent itself. Tocqueville found an exuberant nation, at times irritating...
...were being waged not in the rough winter seas around the Falklands but in stormy government conference rooms in the capitals: London, Buenos Aires and Washington. "Never in my 20 years of covering Britain," says TIME Reporter Frank Melville, "can I recall a major crisis here that blew up so suddenly from out of nowhere." Says TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo: "Even though the confrontation is in Falkland waters, the nerve center of the fleet is London-at No. 10 Downing Street...
...soon. Keeping a fleet of that size at sea about 8,000 miles from home would raise problems even in the conditions of a tropical paradise. In autumn in the Roaring Forties [the South Atlantic from 40° to 50° latitude, a region near the Falklands known for rough seas] what has to be done must be done quickly. Argentina's advantage lay in spinning the negotiations out, Britain's in speedy resolution. Be bold, be bloody, be resolute if you really must-but be quick...
Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67 pointed out that the commuters are students who just barely lost out in the rough application competition but received a second chance because of Harvard's desire to pay special attention to local residents. They were not accepted in place of on-campus students to make more room for those in the Houses. In fact, many of the commuters move into College residences after freshman year. And even if Harvard does accept the commuters as a means of bringing in extra tuition without additional crowding, as some have speculated, the benefit would seem...