Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junk while crossing the China Sea: "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here instead of me." The emphasis is on escape: escape from parents, school, war, self, and finally, madness. Al learns that he cannot muscle his way through to escape. He must follow Birdy in struggling to wing his way to freedom. Imagination takes them a long way. As Al puts it, Birdy makes up the lying part and I back him with the details to make it seem real. What a team...
...literary periodicals recalled in this lively chronicle range from Partisan Review, left-wing and loudly ideological at its birth in 1934, to Paris Review, a sleek '50s expatriate now based in New York. An entry on John Crowe Ransom reports that the poet started the Kenyon Review because he thought Partisan Review too flashy. Robert Creeley, founder of the Black Mountain Review, says that "to be published in the Kenyan Review was too much like being 'tapped' for a fraternity." United only in their dislike of New York publishing and each other, the little magazines were starting...
...position at the same time to cover up for the team's defensive madequacies. You began to notice that it wasn't just first game jitters that made Lau susceptible to long shots. And you couldn't understand why the hell a natural center like George Hughes was playing wing...
...program running each year. But inflation eats away at the value of the income from that capital year by year. Because Harvard remains committed to the program, the Faculty must move in and make up the difference. This erosion affects every endowed program and chair under the Faculty's wing, and more and more of the Faculty's unrestricted income--money it may spend as it wishes--becomes tied up in these restricted uses...
...talent is not as widespread as the spirit. The squad still relies on a small nucleus of players to produce on offense. The Green Line--Sara Fischer on left wing, Tania Huber at center and Meg Streeter on right wing--has accounted for three-fourths of the Crimson's 45 goals. Huber (16-10-26), a sophomore from Rumson, N.J., is the team's fastest skater, strongest shooter and all-around best player, but she cannot do it all every game...