Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising that WEAL sources now fear Harvard will "slip through" departmental scrutiny. The battle for true affirmative action at the K-school will not be won through the Department of Labor, WEAL and the students increasingly recognize, and they vow to continue pressuring the school for more than token gestures in the "post-complaint" era. It will be a hard fight...
With McLaughlin giving a command, foot-stomping performance, the Crimson watched the seven point halftime margin slip away in the opening minutes of the second half, with the Lions going ahead, 50-49, on a Vernon Outlaw bank shot with 13:20 left in the game...
...Company of Women has the same strengths and weaknesses as Final Payments. Both novels succeed on the durability and intelligence of central characters who command respect. Both novels have a tendency to slip into lugubriousness and slick schematism. Felicitas' college days contain too much stock footage from the dopey '60s, and though Cyprian's followers illustrate the spiritual dependency of women in a male-dominated church, they remain only illustrations - sketches of romanticized stoicism...
...Yale duo of Helen Hyde and Sue Doten might also prove unassailable in the breaststroke events, unless Crimson freshman Susan Kim can slip between them in the 50-yard contest. "New Wave" Kim, a precocious sprinter who dons Devo glasses and a gold lame vest before her races, could also place in the 100-yard individual medley...
Many of Bowen's stories were influenced by the work of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. What saves them from the pallid artiness of imitation is the author's taste for melodrama. She knows how to slip in the bizarre or improbable for the purpose of raising expectations, not eyebrows. Ghosts walk in some of these tales, and they are not explained away as wandering, ectoplasmic neuroses. They are what they are. Bowen's fiction is sometimes as strange as truth. In The Evil That Men Do-, a bored housewife writes a love letter...