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...Harvard men's basketball loss these days has about as much grace and subtlety as the death of a great bull moose by heart attack. After trudging along with its opponent for three-fourths of a game on the strength of a pesky defense and decent transition game, the team will suddenly come to an abrupt stop. Its eyes will get big. Its heart will pound. Its nostrils will flair. Its neck will stiffen. And then: thunk...
...time to regress to Martin Luther King's ideal. The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is the sole decent American criterion...
Passes were made and shots were taken, but the Crimson could not develop many good scoring chances, settling for semi-decent slaps at the Eagle goaltender...
While the two running backs turned in decent performances, the load ultimately proved too heavy and Yale pulled away in the second half with three touchdowns...
...hero of his umbrous novel Novemberfest (Knopf; 386 pages; $24) is Glen Cady, a 50-year-old professor of German whose young wife Paige goes septic after he is rejected for tenure at his New Hampshire university. Glen is a decent fellow. He was an assembly-line worker in Detroit as a young man, before he quit and revived an interest in the German language begun when he was a soldier in Europe. Paige is petulant and self-absorbed. She disapproves of his besotted love for their four-year-old daughter ("so working class") and grumps when...