Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we still have the same sort of question marks," Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said after the meet. "Their [Brown's] weaknesses complemented our weaknesses remarkably. If I had sent down a blueprint, we couldn't have done any better...
...blind tom-cat to her broken-winged sparrow, until Tom lowers his tail, breaks the silence in order to regain the peace of their barren thicket. A breakable pane hangs between them always, a horse-drawn past and jet-lured future caught in the same jam of traffic but still enveloped in the mist and mystery of dreams...
...read about S.J. Perelman's death [Oct. 29] shortly after I had discovered and was still reading A Child's Garden of Curses. There's no doubt about the man's ingenuity, and the death of such an amusing character is a pity. I'm sure that now even the saints won't be able to keep a straight face with him and his writing around...
...doctors imply that he could depart even sooner than that. They completed radiation treatments for the Shah's cancer of the lymphatic system last week, and though he still needs to have a gallstone removed from his bile duct, that does not have to be done in New York...
Such militant views are still much in the minority (though Marine Corps officials in Chicago reported a 150% increase in inquiries from prospective recruits since the Tehran crisis started), but they indicate the domestic pressure on Carter as he tries to cope with a situation that all but defies a happy resolution...