Word: winners
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...Double Winner...
Today Evtushenko is the focus of a controversy set off by the most inconsequential of events: his nomination last month for the Chair of Poetry at Oxford. Long-smoldering antagonisms to Evtushenko flamed into print during the balloting, and it was no matter that he finished third behind the winner, an English solicitor and minor poet, Roy Fuller. The attacks on him continued...
...build a dream capital in the jungles of his country. Aspinwall goes on fighting to prove that honesty, if not justice, will prevail in political affairs. As the author records in lean, reportorial prose, in any struggle to salvage both dignity and power from such a situation, the winner takes nothing. Well, almost nothing...
...their unwillingness to extricate themselves quickly from the war, by the attempt to reincarcerate Eldridge Cleaver, by the brutality of the police at the Columbia demonstrations, by the selection of a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President who was neither the choice of the people nor the winner of the primaries, by the credibility gap of the President, and finally by the correctness of the Black judgment of America that it is sick with Racism. Too much has happened and continues to happen which undermines the confidence one may have formerly had for the legitimate authorities in this nation...
...should provide a good opportunity for Harvard to iron out any wrinkles. The Terriers lost their one big star when hurdler Dave Hemery graduated last year. Hemery was a gold medal winner for Britain in the Olympics, setting a new world record in the 440 hurdles...