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...comes into tonight at 15-3-3, 9-3-3 ECAC Division One--best in the league--and has outscored its opponents, 97-68. Playoffs and a national ranking beckon. Last Monday, the Eagles determinedly ground out a 5-2 win over...
...malleability is evident in many key places, particularly where it says "through the support of existing programs and the establishment of new ones, the Foundation could make a significant contribution to the aesthetic and intellectual life of the University". Other "woulds" and "coulds" and "in some sense"'s beckon Black involvement. The aesthetic and intellectual life of this University is much too pale without our vibrancy...
...emulates the style without knowing its meaning . . . whereas I (and Schoenberg and Berg) endeavor to fulfill this meaning-and it remains eternally the same-through our means.'' Webern's meaning may still elude us. But the pure aesthetic integrity of his means continues to beckon us to the heights...
...tern of the screw to Comintern. A single-joke book, but a funny one, deserving of a big ternout. If the bird book rises from the dictionary, Hamburger Madness by Jack Ziegler bounces off the wall. The New Yorker's resident screwball, Ziegler is famous for muses that beckon the writer away from his work and toward a bar, and a bank with a sign that reads TIME: 4:32. TODAY'S WEATHER: SHOES...
...would pump away a sweltering midsummer week in Iowa, when beaches and lakes and Laker beckon? Just about anyone, according to TIME'S Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, who monitored the cornbelt caravan, part of it on a borrowed ten-speed Gitane bike. The Ragbrai army, he reports, comes from all over the U.S. and from every way of life and income bracket. On the road, its members fall into five loose categories...