Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's only loss has been to Pennsylvania, one of the finest teams in the East. McCurdy says he is expecting the Yale-Princeton race to be at least as difficult...
Bewhiskered Royce Shaw bettered the Brown course record by nearly a half minute enroute to his fourth straight individual victory. The lanky junior moved away from his teammates in the last mile to cover the five-mile course in 24:14, proving his ability as one of the East's top all-around runners...
...fact, however, Vellucci feels distinctly uncomfortable with all of these long-range problems and prefers to see himself as the last of the old time ward-heelers dealing in an informal way with local issues as they arise. To keep the teenagers out of trouble but--ultimately--in East Cambridge, he and his wife established a marching band, the Don Juan Drum and Bugle Corps, made up of a series of complicated major and minor leagues designed to involve every child under eighteen in the most noisy and enthusiastic if not the best musical enterprise in the city. To keep...
...more often than not what that disguise involves is a rhetorical and usually very funny attack on institutions outside of East Cambridge which serves to draw attention away from what is actually happening in Vellucci's neighborhood and strengthens his own position as baiter of a common enemy. The very rich and the very powerful represent the most visible threats to the community, and, while Vellucci's attacks on the University always strike a responsive chord, they also increase the paranoia that is beginning to spread through the neighborhood. While Vellucci may refused in just to eat or drink...
...like the weather: everyone knows him and has an opinion of him. "Wayne Morse?" muttered a brawny teamster over lunch in East Portland yesterday. "I'm tired of that old man." A Reed College girl said, "With his moustache, gray hair and lecture-like speeches, he reminds me of a friendly old uncle--something like uncle...