Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French, then I would hear back that I wanted to relive Fitzgerald and Hemingway, but it wasn't so, and besides I'd never much liked Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but when you're writing a novel your job is impossible to describe, so most of the time I just shut up and made pretend not to hear. We were both free a lot of the time, my roommate and I, didn't usually have anywhere to report, so we would spend hours walking in the streets or having cafe au lait or looking for women or talking...
...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 of Guru Maharaj Ji and author of The Inner...
...crucial element in the conspiracy besides the CIA and Cubans: organized crime. A well-known Dallas underworld figure involved in gambling and prostitution, Ruby began his career working for Jimmy Hoffa, travelled to Cuba with Syndicate boss Meyer Lansky, and was given an interest in a Lansky casino later shut down by the revolution. Ruby seems to have been a mob hit man sent to silence Oswald after a previous attempt failed. Not only did the Lansky Mafia have a fortune invested in Cuban gambling, but Robert Kennedy was then investigating Hoffa and organized crime, another reason...
Which is precisely what the Harvard defense proceeded to do. The Crimson shut the Green out in the second half. Whenever Dartmouth did threaten, Harvard came up with the big play to kill the drive. All told, there were four fumbles and four interceptions forced by Harvard, and most of them came deep inside Crimson territory, just in time to snuff out a Green scoring chance...
...speaking for the defense, Kurzweil said, "I was really pleased with our performance. We shut off the run, and although they got a lot of yardage passing, it was short stuff that isn't going to hurt. When they did get close, we made the big play...