Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Both teams began to play defensive soccer after the Big Red tally. The Harvard line kept trying to set up plays with short passes only to have the strong Cornell fullbacks break them up. Play was rough, and the Big Red could not put together a sustained drive against the Harvard defense...
...major contribution was giving a musical outlet to the down-home lyrics of the Southern backwoods singers. Rodgers' twelve bar structures seemed to fit perfectly the region's idiom. Early in Rodgers' very short career (he recorded from 1927 until he died of tuberculosis in 1933) he was able to blend the artifacts of everyday life with religious themes that made the most mundane chore an act of God. He was one of the first to understand the gulf between the grand style of Southern tradition and the dull realities of Southern living. You can still see the conflict...
...have S.J. Perelman saying "I think Swift said that life is not only nasty and brutish, but short" [Sept. 28]. Perelman should be advised that the quotation is from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651): the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the single umbrella agency empowered to deal with discrimination in hiring, is short on power as well as personnel. It is forced to play the passive role of "a poor, enfeebled thing." The EEOC has made little use of its "initiatory capabilities," opting instead for processing individual complaints when they are received. The Civil Rights Commission recommended broadening the EEOC's policing role, allowing EEOC rulings to supplant Justice Department lawsuits in complaints about discrimination. The report also said that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has hardly begun to use the enforcement authority...
...candidate is short, boyish despite graying sideburns, and dresses with dash. His hands constantly go to his receding hairline. As he steps away from the pulpit of a synagogue in Queens (because it is "too formal"), in order to address his audience from the aisle, he looks like a misplaced Johnny Carson...