Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson is a sad replica of what it once was. The Harvard whirlwind, which blew to three NCAA tournament appearances in the last three years...
...fact in many professions that to a few of the charlatans some success will come. It is a sad fact that to some of these charlatans a public forum will be provided in which they can spread their half-baked ideas. I am sure that Cliff Stevenson is delighted that you have given him his forum. I would now like to finish cooking some of his ideas...
...distinctly in his fierce, futile independence. Although joined by fine, mostly British actors -- Jenny Agutter, Michael Gough and Rachel Gurney among them -- Jacobi gives what approximates a masterly one-man show. In a brilliantly calibrated scene near the end, he makes Turing's happiest moment also serve as a sad metaphor for his yearning, and inability, to communicate. He enfolds himself in the arms of a Greek youth, neither able to speak the other's language. Embraced, contented, he is still alone with his thoughts...
There were bonfires on the fields where I walked. I marched from bonfire to bonfire, warming my hands, looking in the distance for the bus. Wind wrapped around me like a blanket. I began to shiver. There were still chants, worn-over remnants of a sad Game. "Har-vard sucks. Har-vard sucks...
Bourguiba's ouster was a sad finish to a remarkable career. He led his country to independence without the bloodshed that accompanied the French withdrawal from neighboring Algeria. Deeply pro-Western, he succeeded in transforming Tunisia from an underdeveloped backwater into one of the most prosperous nations in Africa. But in recent years the "supreme combatant," $ as he was known, had become increasingly impulsive and autocratic. Amid a worsening economic crisis, he refused to take steps to ensure an orderly transition, despite his deteriorating health. He banned opposition parties and dissolved trade unions. Last year he divorced his wife...