Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forest raptures of the trapper's life ... and an almost mute religiosity, having to do with the suspected presence of the eye of God in the tops of trees and in the mysterious depths of trout pools... On both sides: strong fiber, ample courage, a constant uneasy dialogue with ancient values, and outcroppings, all along the way, of excess...
...also might have wondered why, when you take an exam or two in Memorial Hall each semester, the temperature inside in always frigid or sweltering--no matter how comfortable it is outside. That ancient Gothic building must have a demonic spring possessing it determined to recreate the fortures of old for unsuspecting undergrads...
...laxwomen will meet Yale at 2 p.m. Saturday on Soldiers Field, and then will host Dartmouth next week in the season finale. Wins over the Elis and the Big Green would give Harvard its fifth consecutive Ivy crown. Harvard is currently 4-0 in the Ancient Eight...Harvard goalie Krickett Johnson made three saves last night...Other Crimson scorers were Kelly McBride, Bambi Taylor, Liz Faecher and Kate Felsen. Each tallied once...The Crimson has won its last four games by a combined score of 46-10...The laxwomen are currently averaging 10.1 goals a game. The team record...
...time the game had finished, the Crimson had won its 26th Ivy win in its last 28 Ancient Eight outings...
...formulaic as the half-hour sitcom. This season's multiparters were mostly sprawling family dramas or historical sagas, with hackneyed plots spiced up with vaguely exotic locales (1920s Paris in Mistral's Daughter, turn-of-the-century New York City in Ellis Island). A.D.'s meticulous evocation of the ancient Roman Empire could not redeem a ponderous extravaganza that looked as if it had been conceived and directed by computer...