Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...program jumped back up to No. 1. Rather, who on the air showed the stress of troubled times, appears reinvigorated and relaxed, and the show has an attractive new set and swelling theme music. In an effort to give the newscast a further boost, correspondents from 60 Minutes will start showing up for weekly stints as analysts; Mike Wallace is set for this week...
...false start with a show about Richard the Lion-Hearted sent Rice back to the Bible for inspiration, and he found it in the greatest story ever told. Jesus Christ Superstar was an instant hit, first as a single pop song, then as a double album, finally as a 1971 stage show in New York. It was not the first rock musical -- Galt MacDermot's Hair preceded it, as did the Who's "rock opera" Tommy -- but its impact was extraordinary. Lloyd Webber hated Director Tom O'Horgan's lurid, heavenzapoppin' staging, which featured a transvestite Herod, Judas in silver...
Brown enters tonight's contest with an 0-8-1 league ledger after jumping to a stark naked 0-8 start. If not for a 2-2 skirmish with Army, which has been all it can be to the tune of a 1-9-2 record, Brown may have had to wait for the turn of the century before it recorded a point...
Yale got off to an 0-11 start--including a sparkling 0-7 Ivy mark--before meeting up with, you guessed it, Army and Brown. In the "Week of the Weak," Yale pulled off two victories and, get this, allowed zero goals...