Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is Tom Yellin," he yelled into the phone, "and I'm calling from the Hudson Terrace Tavern, and we just beat Penn and Columbia, which is pretty unreal...
...like 'The King of Hearts,'" she said. "It's so unreal...
Perhaps the most unreal event of the week was the Paris conference on Indochina. The 12-or-13-party agreement that was signed says nothing, means nothing, and is important only for its existence. The document is no international guarantee of peace in Indochina, and is relevant to the chance for peace only because the conference's failure to produce "an act" would have been a major ceasefire violation as blatant as the daily fighting that continues in Southeast Asia...
...unreal life of the croquet tournament and the formal ball goes on today just as though nothing much had changed, except for the invention of air conditioning, since Henry Flagler first laid a railroad span across Lake Worth in 1894 and opened up an idyllic new playground to his friends. From what is probably the world's richest island, now at the height of the two-month ritual known simply as The Season, TIME'S Peter Range reports...
Giants. It only seems that way. Wooden's coaching philosophy is, in fact, anything but unreal: "Get the players in the best of condition. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly. Drill them to play as a team." Cynics scoff at such talk; talented giants, not playground bromides, they say, account for U.C.L.A.'S success. Wooden is, in fact, currently graced with 6-ft. 11-in. Bill Walton, the best center in college basketball. And before Walton, U.C.L.A. had Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft. 2-in. pivotman who led the Bruins to three national titles, then turned...