Word: ei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Danny Acosta shocked the collegiate handball world last weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as the sophomore from EI Paso walked away with fourth place at the NCAA handball tourney...
...columns in The Village Voice have an obsessive quality, achieving for the mid-seventies what Dr. Thompson did for the violence and insanity of the Nixon years. Nixon's debacle finished Thompson--it was a final irony for the president to drag along with him, when he retired to EI Cass Pacifica, the man who understood him best. So Thompson is holedup in Boulder Creek, listening to tapes of Jimmy Carter speeches and reading about himself in Doonesbury. Thompson was best in writing about thugs and goons, from San Bernadino's Hell's Angels and the burnt-out geeks...
With the way Tiant was pitching, the Sox 5-1 lead was never threstends. EI Tiante, who is off to his best spring in three years with the Red Sox, was masterful, scattering eight hits...
...President with a great Democratic majority in Congress is up against a philosophical difference. But there is a limit to how much you can compromise in an effort to get solutions. When you start trying to mix salt and sugar, it is not going to turn out to be ei ther good salt or good sugar. There come moments when you almost have to adopt an adversary position in order for people to understand what the issue is. Sometimes, even if you're going to be overridden in a veto, you stand and say, "Here, this is what...
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late String Quartets, Op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135 (Vegh Quartett; Telefunken, 4 LPs, $27.92). These quartets are the summit of Beethoven's chamber music. It is music that makes no concessions, ei ther to brain or hand, and sets no store by charm. The Végh Quartett makes sense of these bristling compositions with their many movements, many rhythms, many ideas, abrupt changes of character. The group is most convincing in the melancholy opening fugue of the C-Sharp Minor but lacks the emotional reach required by the sudden deaths and harsh...