Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look now, but the Harvard soccer team has won two games in a row. Shocking though it may seem, the Crimson shut out Dartmouth 2-0 yesterday afternoon on the Business School Field to even their record at 3-3-1 and in all probability, climb into the New England...
...Israelis of genocide, they have stamped practices with labels that simply don't apply. As events take their logical course, and speeches wind their way up to new pitches of frenzy, terms like racism, imperialism, and above all, genocide will cease to have meaning, the crime each describes will seem commonplace, just the latest in a long line of such atrocities...
...statements is the same Wilson described. As the Cuban and his anti-Israel allies use ever more excessive hyperbole to subtlely undermine Israel's moral right to exist, they render real genocide commonplace. At first glance, statements such as Castro's and those of the U.N. anti-Zionist resolution seem trivial. Though their claims are patently false--the Israeli's have not herded Palestinian Arabs into a Dachau or a Treblinka, nor have they set up their own apartheid system based on the idea that Jews and Arabs are different species of humanity--Israel's attackers seem merely to rewrite...
...Harvard man. He is so much a Harvard man, in fact, that were Vonnegut less obvious in writing his titles this book might well be called Kilgore Trout Goes to Harvard. Vonnegut's hero still peacefully accepts life's highs and lows, but Harvard has changed him: the lows seem a little lower, the highs a little higher, and the accepting a little harder...
After describing Europe and Asia in his best-selling The Great Railway Bazaar, Theroux has moved his one man railway show into the western hemisphere. This time he chose the jaunt between Boston and Southern Argentina, once again via the tracks. In what would seem like a replay with just a change in geography, this book lacks the characters, scandals, tall tales and disasters that usually make this genre successful...