Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain Glenn Fine, a Rhodes scholar and playmaker extrordinaire, combined with senior co-captain Bob Hooft and freshman star Don Fleming to provide flashes of brilliance. But Princeton and Penn came and conquered, the season drew to a creeping close, and the Great Leap Forward into big-time basketball did not develop...
Atlanta's Spelman College harmonized with an apt duet of famous singers as it granted honorary fine arts degrees. One was to Opera Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs, 53, a Spelman alumna who polished her coloratura with a Marian Anderson Scholarship. The other, fittingly, was awarded the legendary Anderson herself, now 77. Hailed as "the most famous and best loved contralto of our time," Anderson received a standing ovation for her long, path-marking career. Responded she in a brief, upbeat acceptance: "It's all waiting for you out there, and you can make your lives what you want them...
Ballet Star Mikhail Baryshnikov journeyed to Yale last year to watch his friend Soviet Poet Joseph Brodsky receive an honorary degree. This year Misha was back to receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts. He very nearly did not make it, however. His plane was diverted to Bridgeport because New Haven was fogged in. Baryshnikov had to be rushed to the campus by police escort, arriving barely in time to hear Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti declare: "You have brought classical dance to millions as you made your grands jetés into their lives. With the courage of your...
...ordeal, but the author has more on his mind, perhaps too much more, than comedy alone. Jake is a reactionary curmudgeon, and his view rules the novel. He may have a problem, but society is sick. He rejects his psychiatrist's diagnosis of repressions: "I was doing fine when things really were repressive, if they ever were, it's only since they've become, oh, permissive that I've had trouble." In the end, Jake issues a jeremiad against his own treatment and therapy in general; he also has traveled well down the road to misogyny...
...patient, who is now practically the only one kept in the dark about his medical records, would finally be allowed to examine them, either directly or through an intermediary. Penalties for obtaining the information under false pre tenses would be relatively stiff: up to a year in jail, a fine of $10,000, or both...