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...Grimble had the whole net to shoot at from point blank range after Tiger goalie Graeme Flanders blocked center Pete Miller's shot from in front. Left wing Gordie Price set up Miller's shot with a pass out from the corner...
Hogan's Goat does put on airs. It is a sentimental melodrama posing as an austere tragedy. Its blank verse is merely pumped-up prose. As playmaking, it is wildly, datedly implausible. Ethnically, it suggests that minority groups in the U.S. have a manifest destiny to disappear. The success of the dream is the death of the dream, and in one glamorous assimilationist triumph, President Kennedy abolished the limited Irish vision of local bosses, ward-heelers who could imagine no greater glory than to be nimble crumb collectors at the table of power...
...rest of the first period belonged to Harvard goalie Bill Fitzsimmons. Mike Sobeski tied the score when he pushed in the rebound of his own shot from point-blank range, but Fitzsimmons's 16 fantastic saves far overshadowed the only tally...
Fran P. Hosken, an "architectural writer," observed that neither building expresses the spirit of the subject studied there. She complained that Larsen Hall "lacks all reference to people in its blank walls -- such references as windows, floor divisions, or some means for the eye to orient itself to 'read' the building." "Why should a building concerned with . . . teaching shut out the world and turn inside itself?" Miss Hosken asked...
...month, some thousands will soon be called to serve who might previously have postponed or entirely escaped military service. Across the U.S., young men are once more watching their local mailboxes anxiously for the nation's most unpopular piece of unsolicited mail, that elongated postcard with the blank space after "class" filled...