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...Fern Flaman, whose Northeastern squad broke Yale's five-game winning streak last Tuesday, said of the Elis, "I've never seen so many big players: they look almost like a professional team." And Taylor admits to putting brawn to good use: "I think we have some good decent size. We're going to try to skate with Harvard as much as possible, though we'll take the body where that's appropriate and skate for the openings when...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Bow. Wow. | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

...read the sentence three or four times, out still couldn't quite figure it out. "He's an undergraduate, either male or female, "begins Fern E. Reiss's p.3 story about anxiety and depression, appearing in Friday's Crimson. Is she trying to tell us that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Multiple Choice | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...students who said they disagreed with the committee's plans explained that Women's Studies simply is not a valid area of study. "In my opinion, women are no different than men... So Women's Studies seems to be an artificial division," said Tracy E. Fern...

Author: By Mary F. Clify, | Title: Most Students Welcome Plan To Aid Women's Studies | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...certain illustrious forebears: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope-"and Oliver Hardy-that burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern. Carnac the Magnificent is Steve Allen's Answer Man in swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings are leavened with respect and an originality that will run a thematic risk-"take left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Magician of 3,328 Midnights | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández, 71, moderately leftist, U.S.-backed President of the Dominican Republic since 1978, who improved health services, schools and rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an accident but rumored to have been suicide prompted by despondency over a threatened investigation of government corruption); in Santo Domingo. Elected despite an army attempt to block the counting of ballots, Guzmán planned to give up his office next month, after becoming the first elected President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 19, 1982 | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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