Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blur, the highlights only a few seconds in duration. And his exhaust clouds the air he travels through. The cyclist pedals between his two contemporaries. Neither pedestrian nor driver, he is a happy anomaly, a 20th century centaur. Away from trucks and taxis, he has no competition; all turf is his. The novice and the regular both know the cyclist's high. It derives, in part, from the knowledge that the energy comes from a live body, not from fossil fuels. The legs pump, the heart answers. After a few trips, the rider feels the course...
...that the topics he emphasizes "clearly reflect the values, biases, and conceptual outlook of the authors." Cautions of this sort usually go without saying in academic literature, but in Lipset's case the warning should not go uneeded. Lipset is writing as an insider, a partisan on his home turf, and makes little pretense at detachment. He makes no apologies for his professional or institutional attachments, but Lipset's esteem for his calling has made his narrative account of Harvard politics more personal than it pretends...
Steele said the reason for the unexpectedly close game was that "we didn't play very well and were a little cocky" after crushing Yale two weeks ago by a score of 15-8. He said the team expected an even easier match with the home turf advantage Saturday night...
Retransplanted to Britain, the poet praises animals at the expense of men ("you have never felt the need to become literate ... never kill for applause"). He is pleased to encounter again on his native turf that "unsullied sister of Smog," good old English Fog. In a miniautobiography he offers thanks to helpful friends and models (among them: Hardy, Dylan Thomas, Frost, Yeats, Brecht, Kierkegaard, Goethe and Horace). Plato, however, rates a putdown ("I can't imagine anything/ that I would less like to be/ than a disincarnate Spirit"). So do the "nimble technicians" of Detroit ("Dark...
...reporter who telephoned me, when asked about Harvard, was that I was too distant to be responsible to Harvard's particular situation, but that as a member of the Visiting Committee on Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, I did sense the women at Radcliffe were uneasy about surrendering their own turf until they were assured that Harvard was ready to accept women into every aspect of the life of the College and the University...