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Ricks and Embarassment. Christopher Ricks, the tall, affable English lit-crit mogul (who has finally managed to have himself translated from Bristol to Cambridge University) will speak in the Winthrop House JCR the day after school begins, April 8 at 8 p.m. The title of Ricks's lecture--seriously--is "Five Songs by Bob Dylan." Rumor has it Northrop Frye, in response, is considering adding a coda to his Norton Lectures on "The Secular Scripture" to be called "Myths of Ascent and Descent in 'Lay, Lady, Lay'." Such rumors, though, like so many scriptures themselves, may well be apocryphal...
...lone fact which correlates with last night's contest in Columbia's record-4-20, 2-10 in the Ivies, in a word, the Lions are borrendous, and any team which loses to them should be banished to the Bristol County League for a year...
Compare that with Edmund Burke's celebrated 18th century address to the electors of Bristol, in which he promised the voters not obedience to their desires but the free exercise of his judgment. Burke's elevated remark won an enduring place in political history-but he soon fell out of favor with his Bristol electors. America's founding fathers decreed that Congressmen should face re-election every two years to give them "immediate dependency" on the electorate. A public that scorns Congress as a whole usually likes its own Congressman, particularly if he has made...
...former president of the state senate, Hammond, 52, is mayor of the borough of Bristol Bay and lives in the Eskimo fishing village of South Naknek...
Ford is a retired pro soccer player who has coached teams in England and the United States. He entered the professional ranks with Burton Albion of the English Southern Division from 1961-63 and coached squads in Uttoxeter and Bristol during those three years...