Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a leveled gun. Though federal agencies have allotted it $16 million since the riots -and only last week announced a $2,700,000 grant to break its isolation with better bus service-so far, said a federal official, it has done little more than "shovel sand against the tide...
Games as miniature models of conflict among men are as old as chess and as new as the "wars" fought by scholars in such think factories as the Rand Corp. Carried by a tide of curriculum reform, games are now moving into colleges and grade schools, mainly to help students get an inside feel of social and political conflict...
Since then, a great tidal wash of malice and misunderstanding has oscillated in the Atlantic. Malcolm Bradbury's Stepping Westward is the latest fictional flotsam on this tide. It is a pointed little farce, and as cultural anthropology it offers a thoughtful thesis to such British and American minds as can rise above the trousers-pants hassle. The Englishman in the U.S., it demonstrates, is no longer a comic figure known for his arrogance, social pretension, accent or what not. He is a switched-off, not-with-it fellow whose vague uncertainties about the liberal vision of life reflect...
John Hawkins, whose 72 turned the tide against Dartmouth Tuesday, pulled off another fabulous finish. Tied with his Princeton foe with one hole to play, Hawkins curled in a birdie putt...
...second and last of the Bonaparte emperors (L'Aiglon was proclaimed Emperor in 1815, but he never actually ruled). In Stacton's opinion, he was merely "a paper demagogue" who wrote lively pamphlets and had "the dignity of a toy lion." Carried into office on a flood tide of Bonapartism, he soon made it clear that his resemblance to Napoleon was merely nominal. He became a sort of Gallic Coolidge decorated with Continental charm, and he presided over an era of prosperous inanition that collapsed in the debacle of the Franco-Prussian war. Surrounded at Sedan, Napoleon...