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...crossed the Weeks Bridge heading towards the B-School Saturday afternoon, what you saw occurring on the very doorstep of Kresge Hall was definitely not a Radcliffe Junior Parents' Day picnic...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Ruggers Fall Prey to Lions; A's, C's Lose, B's Triumph | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...been racing eastward. The effect on his poetry is often a studied inscrutability-purposeful but somehow aimless journeys through a landscape of clouds and mountains. Some of his poems seem like private mantras: "Dark rain at/ winter solstice/ and in the morning/ rosemary under clear sky/ bird on south doorstep/ poised like a stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Quartet of Poets Singing Solo | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Finally the old man realizes that war is not fun and games, that sometimes death is not in the rear ranks but at one's own doorstep, and he is brutally crushed...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Smooth Sail for a Rough Rider | 3/19/1977 | See Source »

...Hiroshima put on in Texas by a bunch of antique-airplane buffs? The Japanese were outraged. It turned out, to Scowcroft's relief, that Army engineers were not involved. But for a few perilous moments it appeared that the White House might have another illegitimate foundling on its doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: No Place for a Man to Hide | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...want to be a plant," drones a glassy-eyed Mary Hartman from the Fernwood Receiving Hospital's mental ward. Who could blame her? As a pig-tailed Fernwood housewife on television's most talked-about series last season, Mary's doorstep had been darkened by adultery, impotence, venereal disease and an ax murderer, not to mention waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. No wonder Mary went bonkers on the show's closing episode. So what is next for poor Mary and her loopy friends in the new season that premiered last week?* It does not sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fernwood Follies | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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