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Last night, the Crimson avoided the possible pitfall of a letdown against lesser opponents, mustering elan to devastate the two clearly inferior squads...
Senior Crimson captain Mike Desaulniers will occupy the top spot, and North America's number one amateur should guarantee the Crimson a victory. But Princeton possesses depth right down the line, and Harvard will have to muster considerable elan from the entire squad to clinch...
Since Clark's victory Trudeau had played his cards with considerable elan. After his initial resignation in November, the country was swept in a swelling tide of nostalgia. The man, after all, had occupied the Prime Minister spot for 11 years. His self effacement successfully dispelled the harmful image of arrogance. Suddenly, he appeared as the elder statesman, firmly etched in history, and the media which expressed antagonism during the May campaign began to spout superlatives. Trudeau knew he had the budget gambit, and he knew the Liberal party could not replace him in the event of a winter election...
Howe has served his game. He has scored goals, displayed elan and brute strength on the ice, and maintained as low and as dignified a profile as possible in these days of "big-time" sport and media saturation. Perhaps because he used to ride trains to games, or because he didn't grow up with television--but most likely, because he has seen...
Zbigniew Brzezinski and wife enjoyed the Washington premiere of Hair so much that they decided to take in the post-premiere party at the elan, a downtown D.C. disco. Doffing coat and tie, munching from a health spread of brown rice, raw vegetables and yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...