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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CORNELL-RUTGERS: The Big Red might just as well stay in the locker room and pop zits. If Cornell decides to go through with the game. it will be a very sad sight. Remember when, Teen Angel went back to get that high school ring after the car stalled on the railroad tracks? Well. how much of a chance did she have to live when the train hit her? That's about how much of a chance Cornell has to win today. My guess...
...This Club. Again, it was DuBois who wrote the classic prose statement of what lies deepest in black blues: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil and gifted with second sight in this American world-a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring...
Years later in Australia, Muggeridge came to a harrowingly personal perception of the "tragic-You." He was at a sheepshearing. "It quite often happened that the mechanical shears drew blood. The sight agitated me abnormally, the blood so red against the wool so soft and white. Why was the sight somehow familiar? My mind went back . . . to being washed in the blood of the lamb. That was it: the sacrificial lamb, Agnus...
...consumer might think that there is no end in sight to runaway prices. Yet last week Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board told Congress that the nation is "at the tail end" of its siege of inflation. "We're making slow and steady progress," Martin insisted. "There are indications that we may be getting to the end of very high interest rates." Maybe so, but last week interest rates on short-term Government notes jumped to still another record high. Example: 6½% on a $356 million issue of New York State tax-free notes...
...Switzerland were seething with religious mania. The European peasantry was regularly picked over by tax collectors and aimless bands of soldiers detached from all allegiance. Trade patterns kept collapsing. The gaudy corpse of feudalism weighted the Continent, but there was nothing, apparently, strong enough to winch it out of sight...