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Challenged by an arbitrary acquaintance to list fourteen components of Harvard's charm, a recent graduate replied in eloquent and numerically exact fashion. Herewith his nostalgic list...
...most impressive performance of the evening was turned in by sophomore guard Gene Dressler, who scored 20 points. Dressler hit on nine of fourteen field goal attempts, scoring on seven jump shots from outside, one fast break, and one dazzling drive...
...book, the series started with two figures, one of whom was given only two paragraphs by Kennedy, the other mentioned not at all. Reason is that Producer Robert Saudek, who has been responsible for much of the best in television, from Omnibus to the New York Philharmonic, needed fourteen more profiles than President Kennedy had chronicled. But Kennedy himself approved the additional choices...
...picture of their fate. Beckmann's numerous self-portraits testify to his preoccupation with defining his identity, allowing us to share in these moments of self-confrontation. He began to draw himself at an early age--his 1898 "Self-Portrait with Soap Bubbles" is an idyllic scene of the fourteen-year-old Beckmann, facing sideways, blowing soap bubbles across a whole countryside of space. This leisurely, carefree, open stance does not fit him for long, for within three years he produces the 1901 drypoint self-portrait, showing himself poised in a scream. All the features of the face in this...
...liberal Republicans who held up best while Democrats made their gains. Fourteen of the 16 most liberal G.O.P. Congressmen (using the National Review's scoreboard) were re-elected (one of the other two retired). All of them had to overcome Johnson sweeps in their states...