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With his typical Ralph Cramden deadpan, Gleason has been known to compare golf to a chary woman, saying "you know you're not going to wind up with anything but grief, pal, but you can't resist the impulse."

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golden Hours of The Golden Bear | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

While discussing next Tuesday might be a bit premature--especially since next Tuesday might be spent in Cambridge watching Laverne and Shirley while reading Hobbes compare man to a machine (on second thought, don't count on it)--as well as optimistic, partisan, and somewhat like worrying about lunch at...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skating on Thin Ice | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

4) Should any two teams finish so close that percentage differences are meaningless, the ECAC gets to step in and do things like compare the season series--if there was one--between the schools. Which means that Providence has two victories and an edge over Harvard, RPI over Providence, and...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: For Harvard, One Yale of a Weekend | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

The meet unified women's swimming and diving in the Ivy League, giving many of the swimmers a chance to renew old friendships, compare times, and share their experiences as swimmers at different schools.

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: All Quiet on the Philadelphia Front | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

To compare the dramatization of Roots with the British The Fight Against Slavery is a disservice to both. The BBC production is a slave master saying he is sorry; Roots is a slave saying it hurts. If Kunta Kinte is larger than life, so also are all those who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1977 | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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