Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's victory was surprisingly close; still Harvard coach John Lee was satisfied. "I was giving the heavier weight wrestlers a rest by moving them up one weight class so they wouldn't have to reduce. Yale is not the strongest team we wrestle, and so I was never worried...
...submit that grades fulfill their functions very imperfectly. For too many people they tend to produce confusion and unnecessary competitiveness and, for some, a disdain for their years at Harvard Law School. First-year grades become the definitive judgment of a student's work. They open or close the doors of the honoraries. They enhance or hinder chances for jobs. They establish academic and social hierarchies which reign over the following two years and beyond. Thus, grades become fixed in the minds of many as the most important part of their law school careers. This is an unfortunate and unintended...
...SUCCESS was not unearned. The Tea Party is a large square hall with a low stage. When it is full of people, as it often is, the performers seem very close to the crowd, nearly submerged BY it--which makes it all very warm and intimate--not intimidating as is the case in some circus-like arenas. The simplicity of the setup does mean that acoustics are virtually non-existent but this is made up for by the immediacy and directness of the sound, which comes out quite powerfully amplified over the speaker system...
...first half of the Ivy season, Harvard beat Dartmouth in a close one at the IAB, wore down Brown, also at home, and lost to Yale by six, again...
...funny sex and blazing love-hate of Marcus's dialogue Aldrich has added his own version of warm sex in the evening at the club. The atmosphere is close, the music--four unspectacular girls in blues dresses--loud and pedestrian, but the women her are enjoying themselves. One gets the impression of lots of bodies and the human yearning for closeness satisfied in tune to the music without any of the deathly stillness and self-consciousness of the "explicit scene...