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...Crimson opened against a fired-up Yale squad seeking to avenge an 18-6 defeat to Harvard two weeks ago. Yale's Kiputh Pool, only one-third the size of Blodgett, gave a distinct edge to the home team, but the Crimson aquamen prevailed nonetheless...
...separatist movement in Quebec and the growing regional loyalties of the resource-rich, solidly Conservative West. If the constitution is indeed brought home, on Trudeau's reasoning, Canadians will be able to share common rights without having their particular identities threatened. Francophones could be proud of their language and distinct culture, Westerners could be proud of their regional heritage, immigrants could preserve their native identities--but in a primary, basic sense, they would all be Canadians...
...SEXTET, John Malcolm Brinnin fuses six distinct portraits into an intricate work, closer to a fragmented fiction than to a fractured reality. Chosen from among the noted and notable of two overlapping intellectual eras, his subjects resemble characters from a diffuse and impressionistic novel. Brinnin has captured them, not at their peak, but in their moments of ascent or descent, grasping or clutching, and always searching...
...Rome as the major see of the early church. In the mid-5th century, however, the Coptic church defied orthodox Christian teaching by adhering to the so-called Monophysite heresy, the belief that Jesus Christ had one nature that mystically united his humanity and divinity, rather than two distinct natures, human and divine. Schism ensued, and Coptic Christians were persecuted under the Byzantine Empire...
...decline, and even the disappearance, of some once great American newspapers is to those who love the craft of newspapering like the personal loss so many travelers felt when the great transatlantic liners disappeared. Those big liners had their distinct personalities-the French liners with their exuberant meals, the reliable and stately Queens. Newspapers had decided characteristics too, in the days when the Philadelphia Bulletin jauntily advertised that in Philadelphia NEARLY EVERYBODY READS THE BULLETIN, when the Washington Star faithfully reflected the "cliff-dwellers" in the nation's capital. Later, attempting to change with the times, but perhaps...