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...completely underestimated them," junior Dom Allocco said. "We came in completely expecting to dominate, and we just about got beat. They were ahead in a number of those games...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Men Volleyballers Defeat Dartmouth | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

Race talk as bonding mechanism is powerfully on display in American literature. When Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby leaves West Egg to dine in fashionable East Egg, his host conducts a kind of class audition into WASP-dom by soliciting Nick's support for the "science" of racism. "If we don't look out the white race will be . . . utterly submerged," he says. "It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." It makes Nick uneasy, but he does not question or refute his host's convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Backs of Blacks | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...civil libertarian perspective on free-dom of speech misses the Nativist hegemony aspect of New Right intellectuals' smoke-and-mirror manipulation of free-speech cultural agency into hate speech. The libertarian perspective lacks a certain humane-enhancing quality, causing libertarian proponents to ignore the fact that hate speech of the Mansfield type typically traffics in four things our postmodern era everywhere generates plenty of--anxiety, insecurity, anger, and confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mansfield's `Free Speech' is Hate Speech | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

...students and even fewer unpackedtelevisions contributed to sparse Harvard studentviewership of the premiere show, but surelyLampoon editors will keep close watch of theirpredecessor's path toward star-dom...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: O'Brien Debuts as NBC Late Night Host | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

...Dom DeLuise is absolutely hilarious as Don Giovanni, who is hired to kill Robin Hood. DeLuise does a great imitation of Marlon Brando's imitation of Brando's own Don Corleone. Think about that one for a while. Anyway, it's pretty funny. Dick Van Patten also tries to extend his career by doing a cameo as the Abbot. Haven't these guys heard of retirement and social security...

Author: By Young IL Kim, | Title: These Tights Don't Fit | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

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