Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to St. Louis went the Series. And McLain wasted little time vindicating himself; he held the Cards to nine hits and one run while the fired-up Tigers pummeled seven St. Louis pitchers for 13 runs. Suddenly, it was game No. 7-Gibson v. Lolich, winner take...
Contrary to the Communist and Western myths, the struggle of the 20th century is not East v. West, Communism v. the Free World, Democracy v. enslavement, "people's paradise" v. "capitalist imperialism," but the intelligentsia and oppressed against the worldwide Establishment, liberty and freedom v. suppression. The differences between the Soviet's suppression of literature and "normalization" of Czechoslovakia, Peking's Cultural Revolution, and the Wallace-Nixon-Daley concept of law and order are very slight. Their purposes are the same: the suppression of dissent and meaningful dialogue, and the expunging of opposition...
...Zeffireli's Romeo and Juliet will surely do much to reawaken a youthful identification with the aristocratic "star-crossed lovers" who have been so long in the limbo of Required Reading. This is one of the handful of classic Shakespearean films; it ranks lower than the Olivier Henry V, but only because of the substance, not the direction. With a charged, witty camera, Zeffirelli has managed to make the play alive and wholly contemporary without having had to transfer the action to a modern setting. Romeo and Juliet appear afresh as two incredibly articulate but believably, agonized teen-agers...
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...Bisons didn't have a band, nor did they have many partisans, but they did have female cheerleaders. Even their smiling faces leading a H-A-R-V-A-R-D cheer, however, lacked a certain something. Sincerity, perhaps...