Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 14 years of Yoovy's "sweep-left-sweep-right-dive" philosophy, Restic, lover of the multiple set and the man in motion, was going to provide just the right transfusion to cure Harvard's anemic football tradition. Why, Restic even promised that his teams would throw the football, a radical departure from the conservative Yovicsin regime in which the only passes at Harvard games were the ones gallantly offered by the band's drumbearers to visiting cheerleaders. No doubt about it, Harvard fans enthused, Joe Restic was going to bring something innovative and wonderful to Harvard Stadium...
...dream, thinking that something as idiotic as a seagull could sweep the country. But there it is, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, still perched in the top 10 for something like the 70th week in a row. Psychologists have had a field day in this time of Watergate and Cambodia et al., proclaiming Seagull a book of hope and comparing it to St. Exupery. But author Richard Bach is much too blatant in this expanded greeting card. He gives way to gimickry in place of the soft and the absurd. His seagull is too ambitious, and too successful...
...furor was over Soprano Beverly Sills, unfurling the druidical delights of Bellini's Norma. But even more of it was over the short, pudgy, bespectacled white man with a modified Afro who ambled out to the podium and called the Chicago Symphony to work with a mighty sweep of his left fist...
...weighty compactness of detail and insight in Wilson's prose, it gives the impression of a broad sweep of scenes and events. The irony is that although Wilson ends by calling for full-scale books on both Fuller and Fred eric the reader of this essay may not feel in need of another word on either subject...
Against Narcotics. McLane said that "seven or nine" industries will be specifically scrutinized in a "profits sweep," because they are suspected of having exceeded Phase Ill's price rules and may now face rollbacks. Two of the industries are chemicals and electrical machinery. Businessmen apparently also have decided that the freeze was for real. U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Uniroyal, B.F. Goodrich and Kennecott Copper canceled or postponed increases that had been put into effect or scheduled...