Word: crowning
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Calvino takes for his instrument a highly unliterary device: that great observation post of modern technological man, the gigantic telescope on Mount Palomar in Southern California. He perches a pair of unsteady eyeglasses on the balding crown of the observatory. The critical mass of our atomic age is passe; we have moved on to critical distance in the what-comes-next age. Middle-aged Mr. Palomar is the clumsy seer. Mr. Calvino is the critic, shooting from the hip the question for scientific man in his midlife crisis--"'What color is your parachute?'...or haven...
Those northerners must be desperate for fun, because Dartmouth enters the game with a 0-4 record (0-1 Ivy), little chance to challenge for the Ancient Eight crown, and a defense that has been unfavorably compared to a turnstile...
nationals: the race to determine the national intercollegiate rowing champion. The Crimson heavies drew a bid after winning the Eastern Sprints and narrowly defeated Princeton to claim the national crown in Cincinatti last June. Radcliffe lights won the national title by an unprecedented 20 seconds...
...conference loss to a fast Minutewomen squad (9-2-1, fifth-ranked nationally) will not count against the Crimson in its quest for the Ivy League crown...
Radford took the tourney crown with a 2-1 triumph in Monday's final...