Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Equus, it is the Old Adam and night, and six horses are wheeling in terror. They have been blinded by a 17-year-old boy wielding a metal spike. Spurred by this lacerating image, Peter Shaffer has fashioned a galvanizing psychological thriller...
...abandoned by their regular teacher, a white Peace Corps dropout who thought he would find urban education "more meaningful." When he failed to reach the students, he had become bitter and turned against them. "Some of those teachers could make kids feel dumb without saying anything," another Stalvey son, "Spike," explained to his mother. "And they kind of got across the idea to the rest of us that black kids were bad except for a few. After a while, teachers acted like those slow kids weren't even there...
...Stalvey children-Spike, 18, Noah, 15, and Sarah, 14-are still in Philadelphia's public schools (Spike, in fact, the only white student in all but one of his classes), and Lois Stalvey still clings to hope for the inner-city schools. Like a militant black mother with whom she sided years ago, she believes that the schools need "white hostages" to keep from going under completely. But she is far from confident that even that can save the black students. "Why bother moving children's bodies around to achieve integrated education," she asks, "if like the black...
...most closely guarded secret was the composition of the royal party at the Royal Film Performance, an annual benefit glittering with stars and royals. This year it was announced that the Queen Mother, Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy would vie for attention with Michael York, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan and Geraldine Chaplin at the London premiere of The Three Musketeers. But on that night they were all upstaged by a commoner. Accorded an unprecedented honor and ranked No. 4 on the official program was Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, currently ranked No. 1 among Prince Charles' belles...
...teams traded points up to 10-10, when Paul Matthias came up with a fine spike and Steve Kay turned in two superlative blocks at the net to give Harvard a 13-10 lead...