Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Originally a means of communication between kitchen and customer, the menu has become marinated, garnished, overstuffed, embosomed with verbiage and necklaced with adjectives. It is now characterized, to borrow a phrase from the Forum of the Twelve Caesars in New York, by "a Rising Crown of Pate and Triumphal Laurel Wreath." In other words, it is meaningless...
High hopes for its biggest season in years with an eye on the Ivy League Crown, Harvard's hockey team opens its schedule against Northeastern at 8 p.m. tonight in Watson Rink...
...FIREMEN'S BALL is a flick about nothing very much. It is about a firemen's ball in a Czech village, and during the ball there is a beauty contest and a raffle and a fire. But nothing happens: an oversized peasant granny wins the beauty contest crown, no one wins the raffle, and no one is hurt in the fire. But you won't be disappointed by the eventlessness of this film...
Perennial track power Villanova is favored to successfully defend its IC4A crown. The Jumbos have lost key runners through graduation and the Olympics, but they have competent backup strength in Tom Donnelly, Chris Mason, and Dick Buerkle. Add a tradition of victory and coach Jumbo Elliott's ability to pull out the big ones, and Villanova has to be listed as the team to beat today...
...Harvard is pointing towards Saturday's game with Brown and the Ivy League crown, not the NCAA championship. After last Saturday's upsets, the league is bunched tightly together at the top. Only two points separate six teams with only two games...