Word: comebacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such signs of intolerance are all too common on America's college campuses. Two decades after the Love Generation traded in its tribal beads for briefcases and business suits, bigotry and prejudice are making a comeback. Underlying this ugly renaissance is a change in the nation's political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality...
...SWEETEST COMEBACK Profiteroles, the tiny ice-cream-filled cream puffs, considered the glamour dessert of the '50s and long passe, are back in favor at newly fashionable restaurants. The final classic touch is the dousing of bittersweet chocolate sauce, a sundae kind of taste that is so essentially American...
Last year Harvard edged the Black Bears, 80-75. Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith termed the game "one of my most enjoyable victories." Down by double digits at the half, the Crimson staged a steady comeback with a 3-2 zone defense that stymied the Maine shooters...
There are his shots. How about Bird's stake-in-the-heart three-pointer in Game 6 against Houston that sealed the 1981 NBA championship? Or that stop-and-pop bank shot that completed the stirring comeback in the Philly series the same year...
Today Bird cannot jump (not that he ever could), but he'll be back. How many times have skeptics counted Bird and the Celtics out, only to see Larry stage a miraculous comeback...