Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studio heads. The unfortunate result is to create two stereotypes where one is more than enough. The characterization nevertheless has its uses. Adani sends a class operator to California to make a deal with Farber. He bears the elegant name of Guy Barrere and a resume that includes the Columbia University School of Journalism and Rolling Stone...
...blessing with considerable panache. She never pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother: "What can you do with a man like that?" Even an apparently innocent comment by Salley carries, given the name of the author, some ironic freight: "Graceful prose was never my father...
...cagers face regional rivals Boston College and Holy Cross over vacation and will take part in the Maryland Invitational Tourney beginning December 28 with a game against Temple in Maryland....The Ivy campaign gets underway in January when the hoopsters will visit the unfriendly foreign territory of Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Yale...
...Columbia's second team All-American forward Steve Charles scored his 26th goal of the year (doubling the previous Lion record) on an impossible-angle 25-yd. bullet late in the game to prevent a total rout. Charles also scored in the late going yesterday, but his single tally came after Nittany Lion All-American Jim Stamatis found the Columbia net with a pair of headballs to give Penn State a slim victory and a third-place finish...
...This game was a great disappointment," first-year Columbia coach Dieter Ficken said. "Whatever you work for, you try to crown it with something to show what...