Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political wisdom had it that if registration requirements were slackened to allow students to vote in Cambridge, the floodgates would open and thousands upon thousands of students would rush through and seize control of the Cambridge government. It would be only a matter of time before they stormed the Bastille through the ballot...
...Playing flat is a strategy that involves all of the fullbacks playing at the same depth. This formation can best be attacked by having the halfbacks chip the ball over the fullbacks' heads and having forwards rush in after the ball...
...clear that he gets off on the show as much as the audience, which is one reason why a typical gig lasts over two hours. The joy is infectious and self-fulfilling. "This music is forever for me," Springsteen says. "It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live...
...monkey," says Richard Albert, a former associate of Timothy Leary and now known as Baba Ram Dass. Goodman, his skepticism crumbling, subjects his mind to all sorts of sobering-up exercises: Transcendental Meditation, sensory deprivation and "rolfing," a painful massage that seems to have been developed during a subway rush hour. The purpose of these activities is to shut out the world, to listen to the wisdom of one's body Goodman finds that such pursuits are surprisingly effective-although success can be full of paradox. "Concentration is effortless effort, is not trying, " claims Tim Gallwey, a former follower...
...spoke not of sins but, as a publisher would, of "Errata." He grounded virtue in "the Laws of our Nature" and in man's character as "a sociable being." Jefferson believed that "morality, compassion, generosity are innate elements of the human constitution." He and his physician friend Benjamin Rush spoke for those who thought of man as having a moral faculty and of vice as a kind of curable disease. In his view, good habits and moral practice reproduced health and virtue...