Word: throe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Home of the Heave. Yet it is Mailer who most impressively comes to grips with the convention in passages of intuition and eloquence. With his customary sense of apocalyptic drama, he declares that "the country was in a throe, a species of eschatological heave." It may seem obvious, but Mailer's writing overcomes the triteness inherent in describing hog-butchering Chicago as the setting for confrontation; he succeeds in connecting the cries of the bloodied hippies to the eerie death wail of the gutted cattle. "Chicago was a town where nobody could ever forget how the money was made...
Thirty-one faculty members and students from the Boston area will discuss the Administration's policy in Vietnam at a 12-hour long Boston University teach-in tonight. Among them will be throe members of the Harvard Faculty: Barrington Moor Jr., lecturer on Sociology; Stephen Thernstrom, instructor in History and Literature; and Mark Mancall, research fellow in East Asian Studies...
Yastrzemski will probably start at fullback Saturday. Backing him up will be Lloyd MacDonald, a junior who convinced John Yovicsin that he's ready to play varsity ball by running for 17 yards in throe carries late Saturday...