Word: im
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IM NOW DRIVING the car that's going to kill me. It's long and sharp, an American car, a much-traveled F-85 Cutlass. I prowl down the road, sweep down the side streets, zoom out of the curves. I glide noiselessly through the long December shadows of the trees on the Arborway. I pass you on the expressway, the streetlights bleeding away on the bend in my windshield. Have you heard about the midnight rambler? Have you heard about the Boston. . . strangler...
...IM LOOKING at The Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology. It's an enormous book 460 pages of sermons, poems, informal essays. T.S. Eliot has some delicate lyrics composed while he was an undergraduate here. Theodore Roosevelt has written a bellicose speech on "Harvard and Preparedness" (including some remarks about "the absurd and mischievous professional-pacifist or peace-at-any-price movements which have so thoroughly discredited this country during the past five years. These men are seeking to chinafy the country."): E.E. Cummings wrote rhymed poems as an undergraduate, and these are to be found here too. Photographs of Wallace Stevens...
Playing against Laver can often be frustrating. "Ayven when oy'm plying well against "im," John Newcombe says, "i' doosn't do any good." Laver defeated Newcombe in the finals at Wimbledon, then again at Longwood, often executing shots that would make Newcombe writhe in desperation. On occasion, when he can be repeatedly kept out of position and be forced into making poor shots, Laver will lose a set. When this happens, he will grin at his opponent, implying that both players know it will not occur again. It usually doesn...
...sigh oy enjoy plying "im," Rosewall says. "E wins so mooch i's bludy discouraging...
...beaten 'im before," Newcombe mused. "Bu' oy can'ht 'it wi' im froom the byseloine. oy naid..." Newcombe here waved his hand aimlessly, as if trying to grasp an unattainable secret to break Leaver's power. And immediately after the singles match, he'll have to pair with Roche to face Laver and Pancho Gonzalez in the doubles final...