Word: optional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, Harvard's bread-and-butter play was the power sweep series. The Crimson used it almost incessantly, and ran the halfback option, the pitchout and the bootleg from it as well. BU stopped the sweep this year. Cornell stopped it. If Dartmouth stops it, and if Harvard refuses to try the deep pass or the swing pass to end Pete Varney, it will not get four touchdowns...
...would seem to be similarly usurped by the proposed Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. But HUC president John D. Hanify '71 insists his organization will be more powerful than ever. "Without autonomous student groups, there is a danger of co-option," he said...
Herbert Butterfield's chestnut is quoted twice in May's writing. Behind most international conflicts, Butterfield wrote, is "a terrible human predicament ... a terrible knot almost beyond the ingenuity of man to untie. The trouble with option diplomacy is that it makes no Gordian attempt to explain how policy could have been handled differently. "You put everyone in their place," says a critic, "and see how their options were limited to a, b, and c, and see that the war was tragic but inevitable. You can never make any criticism of American foreign policy this way." Without some analysis...
...David Kennedy is becoming an increasing source of embarrassment to the Nixon Administration. His chronic foot-in-mouth habits, which are costly in terms of both dollars and prestige, began to be revealed the moment that he was appointed. Last December, Kennedy said that he wanted "to keep every option open," including the option of asking for an increase in the price of gold-and that set off a new flurry of gold speculation on the London market. In June and again in July, he said that the Administration might be forced to consider putting controls on wages and prices...
...first touchdown in the second period came on an option to Hornblower. He ran to the right, looked for a receiver, but decided to run, scoring from 43 yards out. Szaro made it good once more and Harvard...