Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Wide World's disasters and near disasters have had some merit. Jack Paar's feeble comeback was a little like raising the Titanic only to have it sink again, but he is still an alternative for those weary of Johnny Carson. Although some nights of the comedy week were mind-numbing in their amateurishness, others, like those given over to a humorous look at the news, with such performers as Mort Sahl and Marian Mercer, were as funny as the early Laugh...
...haven't been as alienated as the people who lived through the University Hall Bust and Kent-Cambodia strike. Pre-meds are a flourishing sub-species and law school admissions preoccupy everyone else. Rampant pre-professionalism makes a quiet student body. But though Sigma Alpha Epsilon is staging a comeback here, parietals will never be popular again. Official university involvement in private College life will be minimal, and Bok's committee of House masters studying sex will be a minor embarassment unless the president makes some major miscalculations...
Harvard's comeback started rolling when Andy Wiegand captured a long, difficult match against Penn's number two player, 3-2, with a crushing performance in the final game...
...Dramatic Comeback...
...stage was set for Harvard's dramatic comeback when numbers seven and nine, Dick Cashin and Fred Fischer, dropped their matches, giving Penn a 4-1 advantage...