Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton will not maul the Crimson as Penn did last week with its 20-7 win. Harvard, however, will have to put up with a team that has lost only one Ivy League bout, and in the words of the Daily Princetonian, "given some luck and effort, could still pull a tie [in the Ivies...
...Great luck" struck Crozier in 1948 when he received a fellowship from the French government to study in the United States. Admitting that "I was pretty much a radical at that time," he became fascinated with American trade unions and toured the country interviewing hundreds of workers. Extremely critical of what he saw, he let his criticism soon gush its way into print...
...Luck and Tendencies. Such a passage could be interpreted as an apologia for the Silent Generation's chill neutralities. But George Orwell-another Third Journalist-would have understood that her commitment is a virtuous aversion to political language "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Like Orwell, Adler refuses the facile role of advocate or judge. In the trial of history she is simply a friend of the court. Luck and journalistic instinct informed her of tendencies just before they became movements. She was with Martin Luther...
...ailments of the age. For one thing, they lack the statesman's surest strength, his reasonable chances of success by inadvertence. A novelist whose writing takes even the slightest notice of his society is obliged to make some sense of the times. That is his franchise, and fool luck will not help. He must be a seer or, at a minimum, the rarest sort of charlatan...
...country inn, where much of the action takes place, is the English dramatic equivalent of the French bedroom. It offers an almost novelistic diversity of characters and encounters. Prelates and highwaymen, maids and matrons meet and mingle-strangers in the night who may, with a little bit of luck, become intimates for the night. Mine host, Boniface, has given his name to the language and, with a certain conjugal felicity that has persisted over the centuries, combines the roles of innkeeper and robber...