Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's zealousness on attack left them short in the back. On a quick counter attack by the Huskies the Crimson drew an obstruction foul in the penalty box. UConn forward Graziano Cornulo started a set play on the free kick nudging the ball to the left. Halfback Bill Morrone blasted a hard right footer that broke through Harvard's line of defenders and beat goalkeeper Matt Ginsburg off the right post...
...which he strives to overcome by reading and writing about tension between working-class Catholics and Yankee intellectuals. Robert Coles '50, professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, discusses the same insularity, but his efforts at horizon-expansion culminate in a mealy-mouthed dpiphany in a drugstore, where a kind counter woman revives him after he faints, moving him to conclude, "There are some people in this world who don't need courses in Social Relations to enable a firm, shrewd grasp of various social and psychological particulars...
More intriguing are a few recurring disparities between Harvard memories and Yale memories. Yale students of the 50s and 60s, if this volume is any indication, were infinitely more occupied with soul-searching quests for meaning of life than their Harvard counter-parts. The screenwriter Herbert Wright (Yale '69) unbelievably puts the quest in exactly those terms: "I misspent much of my youth...in search of an answer to my burning big question: Is There Meaning to Life?" Richard Rhodes (Yale '59) is worse: he goes on for 10 tortured pages in John Leonard gibberish about his search...
...Tape Menu (registered product name). The Menu is available at the Educational Center, which if you happen to go to the Central Square branch office, consists of an oversized dentist's office on the third floor of a Mass. Ave. professional building. Just ask the receptionist at the counter for the cassette and booklet, surrendering your Stanley ID card and sharpening your two No. 2s. If you've been good, you can take a peppermint sucker from the big glass candy jar that Stanley keeps on the counter...
Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, the driving force behind the agency last year, is right to try to elicit increased student leadership and to fight separatism. His political and cultural programs also sound promising. Students, majority and minority should lend their support to the Foundation and participate in its activities. And Counter, for his part should try to be more open than last year about the agency's plans for easing campus racial tension...