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Harvard's talent-laden varsity tennis team finds itself out of the Ivy League race and in a 2-6 hole, but attitude should be the only barrier to a big Crimson win over traditionally weak Brown this afternoon at Providence...
...former player explained that the result was that he was unable to judge what should have been taken as honest criticism. He said he recognized that he made mistakes but because of Harrison's constant yelling he "just erected a barrier to everything he said...
...major agonies of inner cities, Romney said, is that "a new barrier of fear has emerged" between the cities and their "balkanized suburbs." This is because the cities contain a "confined concentration of people with problems." He added: "A small section of our population has become a real menace to their neighbors. We have not been able to get at the social causes of this socially demoralized group-and we do not know how to protect the much larger group of working poor and dependent poor, as well as moderate-income families, from these everyday experiences that generate fear...
...connect the end of May 1970 with the quiet dog days in Cambridge that followed the lifting of the barrier of final exams, or even if you connect it with some summer refuge from the uneasy aimlessness that attended those Cambridge days, then your path has crossed Jeffrey Golden's. He has ridden the elevators up and down Holyoke Center, and he has walked quickly past the panhandlers who command the brickwalk bottleneck between the J. August storefront and the subway entrance on Mass. Ave. But in May 1970--wandering around an almost deserted Harvard and realizing that an organization...
...brigade and, not surprisingly, the analysis occasionally breaks down. What can be a little more annoying is the use of elaborate dialects whenever a Southerner is quoted, while the Northern visitors invariably speak with dictionary perfection. This communicates some of the culture-shock of finding a kind of language barrier right in the U.S. of A.--but the various inflections of Dixie take on a little more color in Golden's journal than they really need...