Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constriction, a checking of one's motives to see if they can be crushed into finer powder--the acceptance of the final negative -- Transplant says that when you don't have any more excuses for yourself, you're dead, that's why even rich addicts lie and steal. No. No. Each and every argument for anything at all ends with the final no. Death. NO. No. Everything is no: no love, no hate, no energy, no sense, no time, no space, no place, no people, no you; even yes is no: yes to the needle, yes to the cookery...
...Eclecticism is consequently faded and diffuse instead of directed towards precise statement. The work of an eclectic laborer cannot possess independent life, whereas the work of the derivative artist cannot possess anything else. This was what T.S. Eliot meant when he said that immature poets borrow while mature poets steal. Stravinsky's Pulcinella is derivative, Poulenc's Gloria eclectic...
Harvard jumped to an early lead in the first inning. Dan DeMichele walked with two out. As DeMichele broke toward second base on an attempted steal, Pete Varney lofted a towering fly ball in the infield. Second baseman Doug Watt misjudged the ball, and by the time it hit the ground, DeMichele was already to the plate...
...allies so far have launched no major ground operations in Cambodia and Laos. Their activities, except for aerial bombardment in Laos, are essentially confined to small, mixed U.S.-South Vietnamese patrols that steal across the border to pinpoint Communist concentrations. In Laos, such reconnoitered targets usually come under quick air attack; U.S. bombers fly about 300 sorties a day into that country with the tacit approval of neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma...
Harvard will probably place all seven of its golfers in the top ten positions and, like last year, one of the golfers in the lower rungs could surprise everybody and steal individual honors...