Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...table covered with green cloth, surrounded by eight straight-backed chairs. Through the bay windows of the salon, Madame Binh looks out on a small lake with its own island and six elegant white swans. Most of the petit bourgeois neighborhood took the Viet Cong's arrival in stride, but when the N.L.F. hung out its flag, a French patriot across the street indignantly hung one French tricolor from his roof and another from his front gate...
Bedazzled--Stanley Donen off his stride, trying to pump comic life into the Faust legend. A movie with sparse laughs and nothing to say. At the ESQUIRE, Mass. Ave. on the Boston side of Harvard Square...
Junior Keith Colburn crossed the line 26 seconds later in eighteenth place with teammate Tom Spengler a stride behind. Harvard captain Doug Hardin finished a disappointing 36th, and senior Tim McLoone closed out the scoring total with 45th. Royce Shaw and Jon Enscoe were 53rd and 73rd, respectively...
Hardin made a strong bid to break away during the third mile, but Shorter came back to take a one-stride lead going up Van cortland Park's legendary Cemetery Hill. But Hardin kept the pressure on. Moving well over the crest of the hill and down the back side to open up a ten yard lead by the final flat stretch. He managed to maintain his momentum over the final 600 yards as his long-time Eli rival faded rapidly. Hardin's final margin of victory, a convincing eighteen seconds, belied the closeness of the battle...
This idea comes out in fiction, where men are impotent and women are insatiable. In The Graduate, Benjamin must undergo ordeal by orgasm before he can act decisively; in Bonnie and Clyde, the woman takes bank robbery and murder in her stride while the man battles paralysis (this is not to say that Bonnie is crudely portrayed). Man must prove himself against the external and feminine. The hero of Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis...