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...seems help from the freshmen is essential if the Crimson are to attain MacAusland's goals of becoming one of the Ivies' top teams and advancing to the EAIAW (Eastern regional) tournamaent. "We ended on a high last year," MacAusland says, referring to the team's performance at last year's tournamaent in Springfield. Seeded last, the stickwomen nearly stunned top-seeded UNH in the first round, losing 2-1 on a Janet Greene tally late in the second half...

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: A Fresh Look | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...characters and here he has managed to make Moscow far more than the sum of its parts. In the end he has pulled off a remarkably true movie. And that is something that few directors. either in Hollywood or in the Ministry of Culture, can ever even try to attain...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Filmpolitik | 8/11/1981 | See Source »

...rhetorical the charges from department members such as Selwyn Cudjoe, who was denied promotion within the department last summer, that the administration is undermining the department's "autonomy". "No department or program is autonomous at an university," he says, adding that only departments with long-established historical positions can attain relative autonomy. "When a program is just starting up, there is need for a certain degree of dependency or interdependence within the institution. It needs help from colleagues not in the department...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Huggins at the Helm of Afro-Am: An Academic Question | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...unpromising circumstances. Not Pryor. The easy subtlety of his glances and gestures, never too big, always wonderfully readable, almost convinces one that something worthwhile is happening here-or is about to. One remains alert to his possibilities. And wishes that the people who make his pictures would try to attain a similar state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cooling Out | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...Second was to enjoy her senior year, and third was to find a job for when she got out. Sipping beer, Lisa explains the job offer she accepted from a computer company in Oregon. She turned and asks, smiling, "Guess which goal I lave left to pass--I mean attain...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Lisa 'Mouse' Bernstein | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

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