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Four of the Navy's six 1977 starters have graduated (Eastern League matches consist of six singles, three doubles matches) leaving coach Bobby Bayliss with a talented but inexperienced crop that has already dropped a pair of one-sided decisions to Columbia and Penn...
Yale (3-6) looks almost as strong as Princeton as they sport the winners of the national indoor doubles--Matt Doyle and Cary Leeds--a host of talented veterans, and a strong freshman crop...
Romanticism is the cash crop of American literature. The making and unmaking of the self has absorbed the labors of our most talented writers. They, in turn, have been processed into romantic legend by journalists and biographers, to a point where literary heroes are more read about than read. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald have been through this mill more than most, and their legends have picked up a number of impurities along...
...fencing match with the ghosts of the past. The blood drawn is palpably human, the wit, parried and thrust, strikes sparks of continuous and sometimes quite unexpected humor. Says the father in Da of his late wife: "She died an Irishwoman's death-drinking tea." The laughs crop up like that, not as explosions but implosions, deeply rooted in character and race...
While retail prices climb, farmers complain that the money they collect continues to fall behind rising production costs. Some farmers have been threatening to restrict production severely unless the Government increases crop-support payments, but their much publicized "strike" so far shows no sign of success...