Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they realized and said out loud how bored they were with their lives and each other, made terrific love during the storm, and "took a good hard look at each other on a sunny Monday morning and got a divorce." Lancelot's and Percy's hurricanes are meant to sweep out the artificial hurricane of false elation and superficial radicalism that do not pull out the roots of the problem. Lancelot concludes with a Christian manifesto, but as Percy says in his essay "Notes for a Novel About the End of the World...
...sorts again, armed this time with old treaties and new court writs and led by sharpshooting lawyers whose allies include, to the chagrin of many non-Indians, the U.S. Government. Their stated aim: to recover huge swatches of land and some of the rights they yielded during the inexorable sweep of expanding American civilization. Their campaign seems to raise the improbable but not frivolous question: Should the country-or sizable parts of it-be given back to the Indians...
...inner conviction missing--which seems odd given Santana's personal faith. It seems ironic that, in the process of finding himself as an individual, Santana has mislaid some of the Santana-as-artist. For the moment it seems that he's forgotten the Mardi-Gras spirit that used to sweep his listeners along in the manner of a Carnival parade...
...Harvard cagers continued to show about as much consistency as the fever chart of a malaria victim when after a clean sweep of Brown and Yale over the weekend, the hoopsters dropped a 66-54 game to lowly Dartmouth last night in Hanover...
From the diving board, freshman Mike Gavin turned in a strong second-place finish with some well executed dives from the one-meter board. Harvard's Steve Schramm, Jamie Graecen and Mike Toal sprung to a one-two-three sweep in the three-meter event...