Word: test
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John's University, Harvard's first opponent, is ranked among the top ten teams in the nation by pre-season polls. That game on Dec, 4 in New York should be a real test of the Crimson's abilities...
Later, they were to receive a warm handshake from such Senators as McCarthy. McGovern, and Goodell, a condemnation from a distrustful Attorney General, and virtual accolades from even "establishment" newspapers like the Boston Globe. But now, in their most difficult test, they were alone, gallantly trying to save the peace that had been that afternoon...
...really come only to test myself. And in the meantime to pretend merely to play a role, to be a would-be streetfighter, to laugh at my own needs, to search out ironies and inconsistencies, to hunt down all that was absurd...
...also came to Washington because I had read Mailer-yes, we all had read Mailer-Mailer's existential yap and yaw. In coming to the capital there was then the possibility that, while disassociating myself from a government I hated, I could test my own strengths. I could recapture what I missed by missing the Pentagon battle...
...real self-test had been denied. The march was too bland, the cops were too friendly, and a real confrontation had never come off. For all our romanticizing, the gas had precluded all possibilities of confrontation. How do you fight an element? The use of gas masks makes cops disguise themselves, it denies demonstrators the use of their only weapons, their bodies. Gas had neutralized the situation. So why feel guilty that I hadn't been blinded by it, or that it hadn't made me vomit? Was that the confrontation I had come for? Because...