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Cleary appears to be correct, at least in theory. The fast, clean American game with crisp passing and tight fore-checking may pass out of existence now that enemy forwards and defensemen can wade into the offensive zone at will. It would be unfortunate, especially since so few American college teams are capable of playing that way--Cornell. Boston University, Harvard, New Hampshire, and one or two others...
...thing" filters in through television and newspapers. The library has copies of Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex and Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique on its shelves, but not Kate Millett's Sexual Politics or Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. The crisp explanation from Librarian Jeannette Winter: "I'll get them as soon as three people ask for them...
...model being ogled by the co-chairmen of a benefit fashion show. On the same day, the much larger "Style" section of the Washington Post offered, among other things, profiles of Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung excerpted from André Malraux's Anti-Memoirs, a crisp review of a television appearance by five wives of Cabinet members in which the reviewer called for "liberation" of these women, and a review of Haim Ginott's book, Teacher and Child...
Snow's reporting remained indispensable to serious students of China. His 1962 book. The Other Side of the River: Red China Today, is widely regarded as the best single piece of writing on China under the Communists. More recent articles concentrated on the current Chinese lifestyle. They included crisp, if hardly conclusive comparisons with conditions in the West: "The man in the street is well fed, in good health, adequately clothed . . . His worries do not include increases in food prices, the cost of Medicare or taxes. He lives within a slender budget, but in compensation he doesn...
...then, tempers had begun to flare. Crisp, thoughtful passing on the Harvard power play set up Larry Desmond for the Crimson's-sixth goal with 8 minutes gone in the third period. Bob Havern slipped the second of his three goals past confused Princeton goalie Phil Robinson 40 seconds later...