Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hitler, or so the old man perceives it. The main action in the play, excitingly enough, rotates about the writing of the book, complemented by flashbacks. Erdelyi hires a young college student, well played by Paul Jackel, to assist him, and the two suffer through an alternately close and cold relationship. But just why the tone of the relationship varies so is never quite clear...
...university cannot afford to pay more to its workers in benefits and wages. But that deficit, which came--surprisingly--after Yale's endowment rose nearly 10 per cent in fiscal 1976, was caused largely by temporary circumstances, such as a rise in fuel costs during last year's unusually cold winter. And although the university has fostered a sense of financial "crisis" by instituting a hiring freeze, much of that crisis was actually created by a corporate decision last month to limit the amount of endowment income used for general expenses...
...Honourable Schoolboy, arguably le Carre's best novel since The Spy Who Came In From the Cold landed him on the publisher's all-star team, carries that strain of realism to its logical and dramatic conclusion. Taking up where he left off in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre chronicles the efforts of a demoralized Secret Service to regain its reputation and, more important, its sense of self-respect, in the wake of its infiltration by a Soviet double agent. The task falls on the shoulders of George Smiley, typically a shrewd but atypically a paunchy and unglamorous secret...
...beginning of the second 40 minute period the Crimson had shaken off the last of the effects of their pre-game wait in the cold and they more than reversed Yale's domination of the first half...
...contest began, Scalise's portentious words, spoken before the opening whistle, Harvard "is cold and flat," seemed only too prophetic. Yale's speedy right wing. Betsy Rapperport, and her counterpart on the left, Nancy Erzwhiler, spearheaded Eli attacks which kept the Crimson deep in their own half of the large field...