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...individualistic protagonists in the complex and immense Harvard sports drama, who in their brief and transient careers left indelible and marked impressions on Cambridge and the university, who in their successes and failures, in their hopes and reservations, endure, who in their fleeting tenure in the Cambridge university arena strove and groped and struggled with an immense individualism for goals and targets of athletic success. They are gone, lost forever by the transformations of time and succession, lost to the advance of a new generations. By the inopportune and irrevocable timing of your arrival, you will never experience these actors...
...didn't know how to ask," many skyjackers have confessed to Hubbard. When a skyjacker gets married, it is usually to a woman who "seduced him first and proposed later." Adds Hubbard about the skyjackers he knows: "Almost without exception, the men were reviled by their wives, strove to placate them and were often cuckolded." One betrayed skyjacker's wife told her husband that he had "never pleased her sexually, had a tiny penis, and not the least idea in the world about what to do with...
...seemed odd that the Republicans strove so vigorously for a national convention of but one mind and with no discord. This country did not develop from such a put-on. There has never been an American season without winds of countless directions. So just what country did the Republican Convention depict...
...explained that President Ceauşescu had had a promising conversation with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during a recent visit to Cairo-and wanted to share his thoughts with Mrs. Meir. But after Ceauşescu and Mrs. Meir talked twice for a total of nine hours, aides strove to convey the impression that there was less to the meetings than met the eye. The conversation was said to be largely exploratory, as Mrs. Meir pressed for direct talks with Egypt and Ceauşescu avoided any role as mediator. Still, there was always the chance that they might just...
...achievements is that he worked out the first viable alternative to Cubist space -and did it as early as 1915. He was not concerned with what exercised the Cubists and later became an absolute fetish in American painting, the "problem" of filling the picture plane. In fact he strove to destroy the illusion of a unified, comprehensible surface, which representational art had gained by means of perspective and which Cubism achieved through its multiplicity of facets. The forms of Ribbon with Squares, No. 731, 1944, simply hover in an illimitable field of color, whose depth cannot be guessed; they evoke...