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For better or for worse, Spender realized early on "that the poet is, amongst other things, a man who has to have another job, tired, overburdened, who cannot live on his poetry and who is in danger of clinging to it out of self-esteem." For almost half a century...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: From false ideals to modernity | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Masquerade. Subtract Divine Disobedience, substitute an architect for that painter husband and Radcliffe for Barnard, and the above details, cheekbones included, pretty well describe Stephanie, the heroine of Mrs. Gray's first novel. This may be why Lovers and Tyrants flourishes only when it is masquerading as a memoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabin Fever? | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

In the first part of the film, both men are marooned on a vast frozen lake. Dersu saves them from freezing by building a hut cut of dry grass, deploying some tools of civilization (rifles, a surveying instrument) as the frame for the shelter. It is the Captain, however, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More a Famine than a Festival | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

It came with 9:24 remaining in the third quarter, with Cornell clinging to a 2-0 advantage thanks to a first-period safety. Two penalties had pinned Harvard on its own three, and when Jim Kubacki attempted to set matters straight, he lost connections with the pigskin behind the...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Crimson Stumbles Over Cornell, Nature, 9-3 | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

The quarter ended with Cornell clinging to the 2-0 advantage, but none of the players was clinging to the football.

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: BIG RED STUNS HARVARD, 9-3 | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

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