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...rest of the first side, graced by tunes like "Russian Roulette, 1st and 2nd movement"--the story of a Russian archduke who rides across Siberia, plays Russian roulette, dies and rises again from the dead. The death is heralded by crashing chords from Hubbard's piano, the ascension by a rising run on the bouzouki. As "Russian Roulette" gives way to "Dream #23," Clarke--in his sole appearance on the album--gives a grim picture of war-wracked Stuart England. His bass conveys depression and despair by a simple, minor sequence. Hubbard tries to flesh out the piece by drastically...
Coming off a two-game winning streak at the close of three consecutive losing seasons, Durst and his teammates will face an expanded schedule next year as Harvard and the Ivies adopt a ten-game season for the first time...
...first Crimson jersey across the finish line belonged to John Murphy, who won the Heptagonal individual crown on this course two weeks ago with a time of 31:13. Murphy placed 132nd in the field of about 250, posting with a time...
Despite the blistering pace, the Crimson still had two runners in the top hundred after the first two miles, but Murphy and McNulty both faded, as Scidmore passed McNulty at the three-mile mark...
Much of today's criticism tends to "darken understanding and blight enjoyment" of literature, Dame Helen Gardner, Norton Professor of Poetry and professor of English literature emerita at Oxford, said yesterday in the first of the 1979-80 Norton Lectures, titled "Wanted: A New Humanism...