Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, we all know what happened to the quarterback problem. Just when we were getting used to Jim Kubacki and his total offense figures, along came his injured shoulder and Tim Davenport's miracles to thrust the matter back into the limelight...
...crash that left him with one leg shorter than the other; drafted into the army, he was accidentally shot in the back. In 1969 he had a major cancer operation. "I have apprehended death. It releases vitality." Now he is pacing himself like a champion aiming for a final thrust at supremacy. "I hate being called 'in fashion.' I've earned my success," he says. 'I've been 22 years in this business, 18 of them by the generosity of my bank manager, without whom I'd have been a bank manager...
...grateful to be informed by Mr. H. Epstein (Crimson, October 4th) that at least one of the followers of Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's new militant Jewish thrust at Harvard isn't really all that militant after all--or so he thinks. Mr. Epstein doesn't even consider religious behavior as part of a larger matrix of concerns called "ethnic." He is, of course, quite mistaken, though in his error is a measure of his low-profile approach to the new Jewish militancy--an approach with which I have sympathy. Yet Mr. Epstein remains somewhat in error. I have several...
First, I have no doubt whatever that Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold meant his sermon on September 14th as the inaugural event for a militant Jewish (ethnic) thrust within the Harvard community. He even extended this image of his sermon in a subsequent comment to The Crimson (September 27), remarking that he (and I might add other Jewish militants around the country) rejected the progressive doctrine on the Jewish question promulgated by the French Revolution--namely, "Everything to Jews as individuals...Nothing to Jews as people...
...then, within the framework of both the spirit and practice of this delicately calibrated model of American pluralism that I reject Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's militant Jewish thrust in the Harvard community. And though I sympathize with Mr. Epstein's low-profile approach to Jewish militancy, I reject it equally...