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...Widerman is doing his finest wrestling at Harvard," Lee said of the four-year letterman who is a top contender for the Ivy crown in the 118-lb, weight class...
ASPECTS of this analysis seem quite reasonable, in fact, because they are in large part ornate restatements of previous studies. Born and raised in a world of intellectual East Coast progressivism and schooled at the nation's finest private universities, the early SDSers were reacting on one level to perceived shortcomings in the world that nurtured them. In a sense it was selfish--Ivy League ruminations about political alienation, glorified as an answer for the poor man and the Black. The students were grandiloquent on paper and naive in the ghetto; certainly personal guilt over their own relative security...
...THEIR ART, the English have always had a knack for electroplating the basest metal with silvery gentility and presenting it like the finest tea service. This wonderful alloy of nastiness and reserve is the stuff of such typical British products as Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, Agatha Christie's drawing room whodunits. Monty Python, and Evelyn Waugh, Brimstone and Treadestems from this tradition of black comedy, but departs from it by crossing over the boundary between laughter and darkness once too often. The result, while disturbing and thought-provoking, is ultimately unsatisfactory...
Meanwhile, Margolis was turning in what his coaches considered Harvard's finest individual defensive effort of the season. He graded out at 97 percent on the films--a figure that linebacker Andy Noian matched in fewer plays but no one has surpassed. And one particular Margolis play that afternoon had Coach Clemens raving...
...some, competitive distance running begins when they purchase their first pair of Nikes. But for Andy Regan, who captained the Harvard men's cross country team to one of its finest recent Ivy League records, it started when he hung up his football cleats...