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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then those two losses. Ya know, it's almost like he planned them. I mean you gotta figure that Harvard was gonna lose at least once the first month--they always do and so why not do it when the damn game doesn't count for nuthin', not even for beans...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: "Hey, Ya Know..." | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...that they seem remotely vigorous when the curtain rises. Weller (Cronyn) is in a rumpled bathrobe, and his cane is the only leg he can really count on. Fonsia (Tandy) is encased in a mummy sack of a housedress, and she seems too utterly drained of strength to lift her frowzy bedroom slippers from the floor when she walks. Their mutual terrain is a porch that is peeling in genteel decay. They know all about decay; they are waiting-desperate, lonely, trapped-to find out about death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Heart Burns | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Radcliffe, which already lags behind Harvard by a count of 542 to 84 in work-study jobs, overconcentrated its funds in summer jobs and exhausted approximately 50 per cent of its grant...

Author: By Mark Chaffie, | Title: Females Need Not Apply | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

...baseball fan, do not count on movies or specials to liven up the week. There is nothing at all noteworthy on the film front. Channel 2 offers a debate on nuclear power tonight at 9 p.m. Governor Michael Dukakis will moderate the verbal clash between a former U.S. Treasury department deputy secretary and an attorney. Better than Howard Cossell, but just barely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleat to Face | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...FOREIGNERS living there, turn-of-the-century Peking remained a "Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900, Westerners penetrated the political decadence of Peking. But beneath its new mask of subservience to the West, the reality of the old court, filled with power-hungry eunuchs, stocked with useless riches, was preserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysteries of History | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

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