Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also regarded by critics as a sin of omission is the new book's loss of burial service readings such as "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay...
...American men's basketball team was an artistic success but a Scoreboard failure, finishing fifth. Hastily recruited from the second tier of amateur players-most of the best played instead in the Pan American Games-the youthful Americans were unschooled in international rules and woefully short on muscle and experience. Nevertheless, their fluid fakes and brilliant improvisations drew large crowds, even to their practice sessions. A bravura moment came when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence...
Munson died when his twin-engine Cessna Citation I jet crashed 700 feet short of a runway at Akron-Canton air port, barely ten miles from his home. The accident occurred as Munson practiced a series of "touch and go" takeoffs and landings. A licensed pilot since 1977, he bought the seven-seat, $1.2 million jet and was certified to fly it only last month...
DIED. Thurman Munson, 32, captain of the Yankees and one of baseball's great catchers; when the small jet he was piloting crashed just short of an airport runway near Canton, Ohio (see SPORT...
...pessimist's short catechism?"It will get worse, it will get worse, it will get worse"?applies to tennis elbow, OPEC exactions, the seven ages of man, Skylab, the Middle East, airline food, the New Conservatism, college tuition, smog and the length and lack of substance of presidential campaigns. It does not apply to 17-year locusts?they come and they go?or, it is startling to realize, to movies. Just now, for instance, a trend is flowering unexpectedly and delightfully: for some reason that no one even pretends to be able to explain, an unusual number of extremely...