Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waiting patiently for a crack at the goal, sophomore wing Cat Ferrante capitalized on the opposition's frenzied play when she swept down out of nowhere to emerge with the ball just in front of the Williams netminder--who committed herself too soon to prevent the slick Ferrante from notching the Crimson's third score. Moments later, back striker Elien Jocovik followed Ferrante's lead, picking up a pass from Cecile Scoon and powering her way past for the fourth and final Harvard goal...
...then 15 years old, was still undergoing monastic training as successor to the previous Dalai Lama and had not yet assumed leadership of the country. After consulting with the state oracle, however, the Tibetans made him head of state to better defend the nation. On a visit to China soon after his inauguration, he was seized, virtually imprisoned, and coerced into signing a treaty giving control of Tibet to China. The treaty supposedly allowed Tibet to retain its cultural autonomy...
...says. "You probably beat him up a few times." He got attention by being funnier than anyone else around, managed to limp through school, then slide unhappily through a semester at New York University in Manhattan. He broke into television at CBS News, and then moved west in 1965. Soon after, he developed the concept for Room 222, which was then produced by Allan Burns. The two formed a team, and in 1970 Grant Tinker, Mary Tyler Moore's husband, asked them to write a show for his wife...
...grow, time to play, time to think, time to ripen their inner selves and grow fully into themselves. Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly, of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they are born, and dying anyway so soon after they are born-and yet each child, every one, has all the potentiality, has it still, and completely, to leap from their low half-animal state to true humanity. Each one of them with this potential, and yet so few can be reached, to make the leap...
...skeptic who contemplates Mailer's labors in orchestrating all these interviews is tempted to think that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Typing. But Mailer does not work stupidly; the flat, banal voices mustered here soon become haunting. The book is like an immense issue of the National Enquirer being endlessly explicated until it is forced to yield some truth. Gilmore's story is a sort of immense white-trash saga; he accomplishes his victory even in death by calling down all kinds of electronic gods to attend: photographers, wire services, television networks, and at last even...