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Harvard, which has not appeared in the NCAA Tournament since 1984--when it suffered a 5-4 defeat at the hands of the University of Massachusetts in the quarterfinal round--has the goal-scorers to go all the way. Felsen, the team's co-captain, has turned in a career year with a 38-14--52 line and seems destined for All-America honors. Joslin is proving as adept with a lacrosse stick as she is with a hockey stick. She sports a 29-9--38 line...
...tournament will also bring to a close Austrian's fine four-year career at Harvard. The senior dropped only two Ivy individual matches during her four-year career. Harvard also won four Ivy championships and posted a 28-0 mark during her stint...
This lustrous career is both summed up and continued in New and Collected Poems, which gathers together all of Wilbur's six previous volumes and introduces 27 new works. Included among these is On Freedom's Ground, a cantata written in collaboration with Composer William Schuman that was performed in New York City in 1986 to mark the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday. That a serious poet would contribute his skill to a national celebration, throwing well-chosen words into the melee of fireworks, bumper stickers and beer, may seem surprising. Yet Wilbur's poetry has never drawn...
...existential posturings as hero, Christ-martyr, magus, savage and artist-criminal lay at its root. For many, the hero of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence is still the "real" Gauguin -- a stockbroker and Sunday painter who cracks out of the bourgeois egg, dumps his wife, family and career and hightails it to Tahiti to "find himself" among the breasts and breadfruit. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the avant-garde...
...throughout his army career, Roth faced skepticism from army officials who worried more about upholding the good name of the army than about publishing works of scientific significance. In the early 1950s, when Roth was ready to publish his findings on the reproductive behavior of the cockroach, the army refused to give him clearance. After he submitted the paper to Washington officials for review, he recalls, "It came back with a note saying that it was unacceptable because of the use of the word 'sex' in the title. I took the word 'sex' out of the title and got back...