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...same time that he was contemplating retirement, developments at Harvard were to alter his plans. Jarvis and O'Neil had been assistant coaches together at Northeastern for two seasons before Jarvis left to become freshman coach at Harvard...
...House of Commons is expected this week to end work on Bill C-58, which at first glance looks like a relatively minor amendment to the tax code. Yet the measure, introduced by Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal government last April and virtually assured of passage, could profoundly alter the shape of Canada's magazine industry...
...whatever reasons, personal or otherwise, the fact remains that within the last month or so, (a) the nucleus of the soccer team threatened to quit if Coach George Ford didn't alter his psychological approach to the players, (b) three varsity basketball players quit the team, and (c) last year's five Radcliffe basketball starters walked off the team and refused to play under John McCarthy...
...vagabond-age that then enclosed us. They had directions in which they were traveling, and positions to which they would return. I wouldn't have called them especially happy, but they were certainly complacent; they were, with an exception or two, contented enough, or perhaps not dissatisfied enough, to alter or even ponder the course of their existence. Still, they envied us a little; and in the whimsical moments that will sometimes overtake those who have solemnly embarked on their life's work, they'd tell us how lucky we were to be still exercising choices, we whose paths were...
...supported himself by translating an astonishing variety of writers, among them Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill and Dorothy Parker. A childless widower, Montale now lives in Milan, where he contributes literary and music criticism for the daily Corriere della Sera. The prize of $143,000 is unlikely to alter his life or writings. With typical candor, Montale declared last week that the prize has simply made his existence, "which has always been unhappy, a little less unhappy...