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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ones. Harvard's only loss came at the first doubles position, and it was hardly indicative of the relative strengths of the two squads. Coach Peter Felske sent his regular seven and eight players, Patty Wen and Terry Clarke, against Hampshire's number-one duo of Dede Steele and Brittain Mauk. The stand-ins played well, taking the Hampshire pair to three sets before falling...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Netwomen Defeat Hampshire, 8-1 | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

Square's flesh palaces. While some of these settings no longer look as they did in Lowry's day, Director Brittain wisely sacrifices strict factual accuracy to the greater cause of establishing an emotional texture for his story. The atmosphere is further enhanced by Richard Burton's eloquent recitations of Lowry's prose on the sound track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sifted Ashes | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...aesthetic resourcefulness, however, Volcano never offers insights into the novelist's torments. Brittain rattles off Lowry's formative emotional traumas?his strained relationship with his parents, his early brushes with homosexuality, his bizarre first marriage?without ever relating them to the rest of his biography. Certainly Lowry devotees will find these psychological clues reward enough, but others may wonder why they should spend 100 minutes watching a film that never uses its esoteric subject to make a larger point. Volcano is a movie to see ?but only after reading the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sifted Ashes | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...number two doubles team for Harvard, Terry Clarke and Leslie Miller eased by Dorothy Steele and Brittain Mauk of Hampshire 3 and 4, and Phelan and Thielking of UConn 6-1, 6-3. Behind the awesome tennis of Clarke, she and Miller outlasted the UMass team of Jurie and Sullivan 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, before coming up a few shots short against Martha Morehead and Maura Nolan of Boston College, 5-7, 4-6 in the fourth round...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Netwomen Finish Third in New England Regionals | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Center Screen. Canadian film special, with Donald Brittain's Volcano Friday at 7:30 and 9:30; Bethune and Starblanket, Saturday at 7:30; Saul Alinsky Went to War and Never a Backward Step, Saturday at 9:30; Memorandum and Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen, Sunday at 7:30; and King of the Hill and The Players, Sunday at 9:30. All shows at Carpenter Center. (Call 253-7620 for ticket information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM At Harvard | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

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