Word: diehardism
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When all of the diehard fans had finally cleared out of Tufts's indoor athletic barn, the dittoed stat sheets revealed that Harvard had netted 93 points to Northeastern's 82, Boston College's 43, Brandeis's 24, and a few other colleges with a smattering of points...
HAPPY NEW YEAR (directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Francoise Fabian, Charles Gerard and Lino Ventura) is so much gauzy enchantment that it takes some extra deep breathers to come down once you've hit the street. The movie could fill the prescription of the most diehard dream factory devotee--romance and a robbery heist, suspense and soft-boiled humor, a 'sensitive' style that cloaks everything in a nimbus of mist. It's the very best kind of make-out movie, all promises. And if you're not up for a few hours of huggy-wug and kissy-bear--though...
...Diehard Crimson football fans should note that the junior varsity football game, originally scheduled for Friday at 2 p.m., has been cancelled. Yale could not come up with enough players...
...Rippe recounts Jeremiah's whimsical quest in a tape which accompanies the shop. In the best American diehard tradition Jeremiah Rippe flouted convention, defied public opinion, devoted his whole life to the creation of ever more powerful and improbable looking engines, and eventually died, a broken and unrecognized inventor mourned only by his dog. His last creation--the spawn of a mind unhinged by disappointment--was a monstrous machine that was meant to pull his coffin to his grave...
...wins (you guessed it) were against poor ol' St. Louis. I didn't exactly feel like jumping for joy on Monday morning, either, when I discovered the Rangers had dropped their fourth in a row, to no less an opponent than the Penguins. Ouch! (OK, so I'm a diehard New York fan, what...