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...Place for Us" by John Allman traces the movement of the poet's mind as it leaps back and forth between an immediate situation and an ominous vision. As he sits in a restaurant the poet embarks on unpredictable imaginative flights which confuse him and embarrass the girl sitting next to him. By placing the real and the imagined events side-by-side, Allman manages to capture the suddenness of the mental fluctuations wthout imitating their incoherence: I order coffee...
Yale, which had proved its prowess in the East with a 62-33 win over undefeated Princeton last week and has its eye on national honors in the upcoming weeks, was not out to embarrass the Crimson. But Harvard's 35 points--more than Dartmouth. Army, or Princeton could score against Yale--still reflect a vast improvement over the last few meets by the Crimson squad...
BGMA members realize that a strike by the BGMA alone might embarrass the University, but would certainly not cripple its operation since Harvard could get along without its painters, carpenters, electricians, and plumbers for a few weeks. Furthermore, some members claim that there are enough loopholes in the law to allow Harvard to farm out much of the regular work to outside contractors working on special jobs. If, on the other hand, the BGMA members were associated with the AFL-CIO, they could count on definite support for their strike from other AFL-CIO unions, inside Harvard as well...
They're still giving Cassius Muhammad Ali Clay a raw deal. Now that he's proven his boxing ability can embarrass anyone in the ring today, the press has turned to attacking Ali's "inhumanity." We saw the closed-circuit version at the Boston Garden, and it seemed to us that the champ was in a class far above the Chicago monkey by any and every standard...
Ruminating on the fantastic reports that are daily pouring out of Red China, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week was moved to declare: "We don't know what they mean, but that doesn't embarrass us, because Mao Tse-tung obviously doesn't know what they mean either." The world's capitals are all having difficulty in judging the meaning of the tales of peasant armies and pitched battles, of death in high places and kangaroo courts, of confusion and chaos from one end of mainland China to the other. But one thing...