Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life at the mercy of totalitarian authority, really to feel that my personal freedom in this country is now endangered because, as Solzhenitsyn regrets, "a statesman who wants to achieve something important or highly constructive has to move cautiously and even timidly"? Am I, who came of age in Eastern Europe in the period of inflicted morality, really to fear danger "to the human soul" from what Solzhenitsyn calls "today's mass living habits"? Am I not here the master of my soul...
...selection of the two as All-Americans marked a successful postscript to Harvard's 1978 baseball season, which saw the Crimson post a 24-10 record and win the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball Championship before being ousted in NCAA post-season play...
...Harry Parker's heavyweight crew made a mockery of the 100th running of the Sexton Cup on the Thames River with a crushing 3 1/2-length victory over Yale in New London on June 10th. The victory salvaged a rocky campaign for the Harvard heavies and revenged the Crimson's Eastern Sprint loss to the Bulldogs last...
CREW CHAT: Lightweight coach John Higginson has announced his retirement after six seasons at the helm, four Eastern Sprint crowns, and an outstanding 24-3 record...Jeff Cooley has been elected to the lightweight captain's post for the '79 campaign...Harvard lightweight four and junior varsity eight invade Henley Regatta in England this week.... Radcliffe lights competing in Nationals at Seattle...
Looking for some "alternative avenue," he won a Fulbright scholarship to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, one of the most famous of modern composition teachers. On a vacation in North Africa, he first heard Eastern music. Says Glass: "I saw the repetitive element of non-Western music as another way of organizing music." He worked with Ravi Shankar on a film score, traveled through India and returned to New York in 1967, determined to create a new Western music built not upon melody but structure...