Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After playing second string last season behind the now-graduated First, Lechner vowed to make the very most of senior year. He wanted to be Harvard's starting goalie, and he paid the price...
...prominently displayed, 15 to 20 male cadets lounge in a colonel's big staff house. Across the way in Eisenhower Hall the autumn cadet hop is about to get under way. Spirits are very dampened by the afternoon's 55-0 football game, the latest in a string of defeats for the once proud Army team. Why are these cadets not sharing the misery at the dance? "What's the use?" says one, dejected. "There are about 700 men for every girl who will be there alone." The reporter asks, "Why were there no women cadets...
...married his first wife, a bright, game girl named Eileen O'Shaughnessy. One of the delights of this sensitive, intelligent book is its portrayal of Eileen and of her importance to Orwell's new identity. In their first summer together, they kept a sparse little shop (candy, string, tea, flour) in a country village, gardening and tending goats and chickens while Orwell worked on Wigan Pier. Through all his later years of anguished achievement and fame, write the authors, "the happiness of that long-ago summer would never be recaptured...
...they are redneckedly outlandish enough (bowling and slinging semi-automatic weapons) that they will not challenge any intellectuals to consider their own personal role in the process. Their very redneckedness is in fact romanticized, made "Hip" in the way Millett wrote. In short, Attanasio has created a clever (tiresome) string of one-liners that laughs its way all around the issues. It's caricature that thinks it's analysis...
...scientific inquiry, the Core offers ten times that many classes on esoteric subjects ranging from the ridiculous ("Comedy and the Novel") to "The Sublime in America"; others, equally confined in scope, include "Nationalism, Religion and Politics in Central Eurasia," "Tuberculosis in the 19th Century," "The Development of the String Quartet," "Chivalric Romances of the Middle Ages" and "The Emancipation of the Jews...