Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purposes of the play, the drink is presumably truth serum, but it is too often weak and cloudy. The trio act out charades of appearance and reality, dreams and desires. The stars, who actually loathe each other, make passes at the writer, and Woodward and Newman show a sly comic flair for kidding the erotic and the perverse. But, taken seriously, the dream sequences are too obscure for an analyst, but an editor might have helped...
...another game, Brown defeated Dartmouth, leaving Harvard as the only undefeated Ivy team. The Crimson have won 10 straight, three in the league. They have been abominable against weak teams, tremendous against Brown and Penn...
Howell was beaten out of the number two slot earlier this year by Keith Jennings, a sophomore and long one of the best junior players in New England. Jennings is extremely fast and has a strong volley, but his serve is relatively weak. The Crimson's Dave Benjamin should give him a match today...
Howell, at number three, is as weak a point as you get on this Princeton team. He's big, strong, and experienced--but erratic. He lost at Miami, 6-1, 6-0, lost a challenge match to Jennings, 6-1, 6-2, and could lose to Harvard's Chum Steele today if Steele is on top of his own on again-off again game...
...looks back to the list of the "violence alternative," it becomes clear that the advocates of defensive violence have been capitalizing on the rhetorical confusion of inevitable and useful violence. Taken by itself, the second section defending the utility of violence is weak, and that is why it is always argued in conjunction with violence's inevitability. In fact the two are separate. Slaughter is sadly inevitable and tactically advantageous. Violence can destroy the civil rights cause...