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...capacity crowd of 4013, which had arrived more than an hour early and thoroughly booed Harvard's first appearance on the ice, created a verbal bedlam at the opening whistle that set the hurried, almost frantic New Hampshire pace early in the game...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Skaters Humble New Hampshire; Cavanagh Nets Three in 11-3 Rout | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Lighten Every Load. Dylan revealed that he has written "a whole bag of new songs" for a U.S. tour he is talking about launching in the next month or so. But the tour will be a lot different-slower, less frantic-from his tours before the motorcycle accident. In those days, says Dylan, "I was going at a tremendous speed . . . I was on the road for almost five years. It wore me down. I was on drugs, a lot of things. A lot of things just to keep going, you know? And I don't want to live that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: A Folk Hero Speaks | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...frantic search for clues has not been limited to Beatle music. The "request" in Her Satanic Majesty's Request, a Rolling Stones album, is supposedly that McCartney return to life. "Badge." a song on Farewell to Cream (on which George Harrison is supposed to have played guitar), is about a car wreck. Nobody has tried out yet a new interpretation of J. Frank Wilson's golden oldie. "Last Kiss...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Clues Do Not a Dead Man Make | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

...heroes and most people is that heroes have destinies, while most people have only ambitions. With some fine adjustments for human limitations, Joyce Carol Gates demonstrates her intuitive grasp of this fact in Them, the latest novel in what has now become an informal trilogy about people's frantic attempts to free themselves from the complexities of American life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urban Gothic | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...lethal dose of radiation from a bomb that dropped accidentally out of a plane that just happened to be flying over that solitary spot in the Mediterranean . . . Anyway, after exhaustive testing, it is determined that Pascal has only six months to live. "What?" yells Papa Holden in a frantic outcry against destiny. "You mean there is no hope?" "I would be lying to you if I told you that there was," replies the aging specialist, with a certain sober sadness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: White Christmas | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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