Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the camera swings to the Anglo-Saxon side of the Pacific, com passion is jettisoned. That football game, for instance: manifestly the scrimmage is seen as a microcosm of American platitudes. But if sport so accurately reflects a society, what are we to say of the Indians' bloody game of lacrosse? Or the Latin American madness for soccer? The film's visits to Middle America strive for irony and, often, emerge as smugness or crass caricature. An ex-P.O.W.'s return to New Jersey is played against a background of red-white-and-blue-blooded...
...When I was an assistant professor," says Theoretical Physicist David Saxon, "I thought the role of a university administrator had nothing to do with anything." Saxon, 55, will soon have ample opportunity to find out if he was right. It has just been announced that in July he will take over as president of the nine-campus, 122,436-student University of California, a trend setter in U.S. higher education...
...Muecke indicated that he would exact fines on each of as high as $4,000 and impose jail sentences of up to 45 days. Instead, Muecke was taking his cue, he said, from the ancestral Indian practice of demanding reparations for a crime, as well as from the Anglo-Saxon concept of wergild ("mangold"), which translates roughly as payment or satisfaction. "Any fine I would levy would go to the Government, and that would be like spitting in a blast furnace," went Muecke's tart reasoning...
...miners of Appalachia, Miller has become a symbol of new possibilities in their lives. Like Miller, they are mainly of Anglo-Saxon stock. On the whole, they are proud, patriotic, sometimes violent and yet often deeply religious. For them, the mines are generally an alternative to grinding rural poverty. Those who do not flee to the city love the raw, knobby hill country and the sense of freedom from urban constrictions and pressures...
Quarterback Steve O'Brien came out throwing, and connected with Steve Saxon consistently, but the Crimson drives continually sputtered and fell short of the goal line...