Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, over in Gund Hall's Piper Auditorium, boyish Sen. Gary Hart (D.-Colo.) will provide some much needed feedback on President Carter's energy program when he lectures on "Energy and Congress." Hart engineered George McGovern's startling success in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries and triumph at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. After the unsuccessful fall campaign, Hart got going on his own Senate race. He triumphed in 1974 on an environmentalist platform...
...recipient of Harvard's big bats (32 runs, 41 hits--27 yesterday--in the last two games) was freshman hurler Ron Stewart, who had as much trouble in recording his fourth and the Crimson's twelfth triumph of the season as the number one picks in the housing lotteries have in finding a good room...
...wreath in Mayor Kevin White's hands was not destined for him, Bally came charging in. One doesn't have to be a Hollywood scriptwriter to guess what was going through Bally's mind those last hundred yards: here he was, an unknown foreigner, heading for the greatest athletic triumph of his life and world-wide fame. It is hardly worthwhile to belabor the pain of his rude awakening...
Almost every new President, fresh from political triumph or flushed with the vibrancy of vast power, thinks foreign policy is easy. He is flattered by other heads of state, puffed up by admiring aides. Deflation inevitably follows. The important thing is not that mistakes are made. They always are. The meaningful point is whether the President learns from them, and how fast he learns. That is the question today about Jimmy Carter. He has had his first seminar with the Soviet Union. More will follow...
...EXPLAIN this apparently complete triumph of the private in public life, Sennett offers only his own poorly expressed version of the Marxist analysis of commodity fetishes and the mass production of goods. Instead of penetrating capitalism as a system of production and power, Sennett bows once more to appearances. To his mind, the drab, undistinguished-looking mass-produced clothing made in the new factories freed people to invest the clothes with personality. By breaking down the conventions of dress that defined the public image in 18th century London, industrialism let loose the private in the public realm. The emptiness...