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This is only the work of a poet benighted;

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Blessing | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

In the benighted annals of Columbia football, Saturday, September 23, 1978 will remain forever a halcyon day, as the Lions shocked Harvard, 21-19, before an opening day crowd at Harvard Stadium. The last Columbia victory in Cambridge came in 1961 when the Lions were led by a sinewy guard...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Surprises Gridders in First Game, 21-19 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

The film does not shrink from portraying the natives as largely a benighted, scruffy lot who are driven to practicing their own reciprocal racism. Two uncomprehending priests, being borne in divans by sweating natives, are charmed by a work song that actually says, "My white man is fat as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Over There | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Seltzer has ample material to work with. Take Tom Fuller. Having played just about every male lead in recent G&S history, from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo, Fuller last year went backstage to direct a first-class Iolanthe. Now he's back as Frederic, the pirate apprentice, and he...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: The Very Model of an Operetta | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

Still, the exhibition is rich with detail. One realizes, with fresh interest, how cramped the visual resources of Jefferson's Virginian education must have been; his own remark on local architecture in 1781, that "the first principles of the art are unknown," is borne out in other fields by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jefferson: Taste of The Founder | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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