Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerful and fruitful engagement in public affairs in the '50s and '60s, the much discussed stagnation of the '70s finally filled him with boredom, a boredom with society that festered even as he wrote the Marilyn Monroe books and The Executioner's Song. A desire to get the heavyweight crown for imagination was probably not the only thing that drove him to Egypt. Disaffection and disgust could well have had a lot to do with it. Mailer may have imagination, despite this disaster, for a big book. He certainly has talents in abundance which could be put to more useful...
Yale and Brown both sport six losses, but each has an outside shot at the league crown. The Elis' split with Cornell yesterday virtually eliminates them from the championship picture, and Brown's playoff hopes are slightly dimmer...
...Navy loses twice to Cornell; Dartmouth finishes its schedule, and Harvard wins as soon as Dartmouth drops a game. If that doesn't happen, then Harvard plays out its tie with Navy. If Harvard wins, then it plays Dartmouth for the title. Otherwise, Dartmouth takes the crown...
...final act comes in Worcester in two weeks, where Harvard is the defending champion. Traditionally, the winner of the Goldwaithe Cup also cops the Eastern Sprints crown, but Harvard reversed that trend last year with a strong showing at Worcester after having lost to Yale earlier...
...seems the players will be particularly geared for the elusive Ivy League championship, up for grabs in Harvard's season finale on April 30 at the IAB. "In the back of everybody's minds in an Ivy championship," says Martin of the crown the Crimson has never...