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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Adam Button, who scored four goals in the game, summed up the season finale well. "They were up for the Yale weekend and to have fun, and they had fun," he said...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Aquadudes Dominate Hapless Elis, 17-4 | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Later, at Harvard graduate school, French friends introduced Wilbur to a wider menu, including such nonclassical literature as the word games of the modernist writer Raymond Roussel and the visionary prose poems of Villiers de 1'Isle-Adam. Molière entered Wilbur's life in 1948 when, on a visit to Paris, he saw a production of The Misanthrope. Lately, the voice of the French dramatist has begun to resonate through some of the American poet's own writing in a transcendent collaboration. "The experience of impersonating Molière has enlarged the voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Couriers of the Human Spirit | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: Strauss led Harvard with seven goals in the tournament. Senior Captain Adam Button scored six Last week, both Strauss and Button were named to the All-New England first team...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Improved Aquamen Seventh at Easterns | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

Those who would like to foist church on state may be advised to look east this week. Two deaths in places as different as Poland and India were brought about by a hostility that goes as deep as anything in our experience. When Adam bit into the apple, he moved from the world of faith to that of reason, and so was expelled by a God who decreed that two such different modes of thought could not possibly live in the same garden. What God has put asunder, let no man join together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Defenders of the Faith | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

McNamara and shifty running back Adam Gorgoni led a grinding Quincy House series, which took only seven plays to bring the ball to the Eliot...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Quincy Nabs House Football Title | 11/9/1984 | See Source »

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