Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidant that I had correctly weighed the multitude of questions raised by ROTC. I had already scheduled a strategy meeting for the next day with other council leaders who shared my view, and no thought of abandoning a position I believed right. For The Crimson to make up and twist facts to suggest otherwise reflects very poorly on its qualifications as an objective source of information...
...surviving players Halberstam sought out, only Joe DiMaggio turned him down (not even mutual friend Edward Bennett Williams could twist his arm). Yet Halberstam's portrait of DiMaggio is the finest part of the book. The author has a tender, intuitive sympathy for the proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans...
...recent twist in the argument over whether Harvard offers its junior professors a fair chance is the charge that the University requires time-consuming administrative work that detracts from a young scholar's time to conduct research and write--the traditional criteria for senior-level posts...
Wolff adds, however, that Harvard-RadcliffeAlumni Against Apartheid has yet to take aposition on this new twist to the divestmentissue. "Our focus is Harvard's investment policyso we haven't taken a stand on this," he says...
These remarkable moving images and hundreds like them on display last week in Philadelphia at the tenth annual exposition of the National Computer Graphics Association are more than pretty pictures. Each represents a three- dimensional microcosm, stored within the memory of a computer, that human operators can turn, twist and reshape all they want. When special goggles, bodysuits and gloves are used to display and manipulate the images, those microcosms can become so real that viewers feel they have stepped through a kind of electronic looking glass into a completely artificial, computer- generated world...