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...amateurs, the coaches chose 80 top skaters. Vairo was looking for players fast enough to cover the wider Olympic rinks and adaptable to what he calls "sophisticated pond hockey"-the patient game of weaving and passing that wins Olympic medals, as opposed to the dump-and-chase, bump-and-grind National Hockey League variety...
...also many other things: an astute critic of literature and popular culture, a journalist who turned political writing into an art form, the finest English essayist of his century. Those who know of him only as a grand bogey, a synonym for some terror that may go bump in the Western night, hardly know him at all. He made it his business to tell the truth at a time when many contemporaries believed that history had ordained the lie. Yet the very name that is now so often invoked, vaguely and in vain, is a fiction...
...friendly chat with me on the subject of character and The Game. I would have told him how I (and, presumably, all the seniors on this year's Crimson team) underwent in 1980 the ordeal of witnessing two Harvard kickoff receivers--whose names I have graciously forgotten--converge, bump and fall down like Keystone Kops while Yale recovered the loose ball, setting up a touchdown. That was a real character-building experience. Watching Yale's unstoppable 1981 squad crush the Crimson falls into the same category. Enduring two shutouts in a row in The Game hardens...
Harvard is favored this afternoon, as in all its league games so far. But the Tigers, who looked before the season like the Ivies' worst, have lately showed the staff it takes to bump off a contender like the Crimson...
...student concerns were also priorities among members William Berkman 87 of the North Yard district said he hoped to get a stop sign or a speed bump placed at the crosswalk on Quincy St. which leads to the Freshman Union...