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...recognized, kills after all. "And the Lord said: 'Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' " Is there a more ominous curse in the Bible? It breathes hard upon us at this time of frantic change, when old purposes slip out from under the words that used to cover them, leaving the words like tombstones over empty graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...Groove Tube's version of the perennial Cheez-Whiz with what-have-you creation of the Kraft TV Kitchen commercials makes the food preparation demonstration into a culinary slapstick. When the frantic hands of an unseen cook have finished rubbing Kramp Easy-Lube Shortening into a bowl of apples and mashed potatoes, and when the finished casserole has been brought forth from the oven, the unruffled, marshmallow-toned announcer proclaims the creation of a Kramp first, "Fourth of July Heritage Loaf," appropriately garnished with "a min-i-a-chure American Flag...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Underground Television Groove Tube At the Video Theater, 24 Brighton Avenue, Boston. | 3/5/1971 | See Source »

...ripens into middle age, Gibson's bizarre experiences become more public. He conducts an all-night talk show on which his guests blurt out their secret lives. A college professor whose sexual advances were rebuffed by a tough ten-year-old singing star turns to frantic logic: "Helen of Troy was nine . . . Psyche was six. When you come right down to it, how old could Eve have been-a day, two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don't Touch That Dial! | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...best matches of the night, two second team All-Ivy competitors met in an expected tight bout. Harvard's Coleman edged the Bulldogs' Terry Brown, 5-3, as the Elis' ace was awarded two points riding time after a frantic third period, After suffering a pin of 150 pounds, Harvard shot out to a four point lead as Mangrum pulled off the upset of the night by beating Eli ?ap?ain Ch?is Legg, 7-6. A third Period reversal and near fall gave Mangrum...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Wrestlers Nip Yale, 19-15 | 2/25/1971 | See Source »

...pounds, Starr started the frantic finishing rally by beating his opponent, 6-1. Scanlon put Harvard up by one point with a 7-4 decision at 190 pounds over U.S. Intercollegiate Judo Champion Jorge Gleser. Tripp kept the Crimson on top to stay with a 9-6 win over Tom Schoenfeld, accomplished after Crimson ace had fallen behind early in the second period, 4-1. Harvard won the preliminary freshmen meet...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Matmen Test Scarlet Knights Tonight After Edging Columbia in Wild Finish | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

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