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Fordham basketball is surviving on the zeitgeist of the glory day of "the Digger" when Frank McLaughlin was assistant coach. Frentic head coach Dick Stewart writhed through the Rams' 17 losses in their last 18 games last season. The Crimson make it a New York twinbill when they play the Rams the night after the CCNY game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Basketball Scouting Report | 11/29/1977 | See Source »

Somewhere under all of that basaltic opacity and frentic word-accumulation something, presumably, is being expressed. The obscurity of the diction (an alembic is anything which distills or refines) and the ambiguity of the description reduce the poem to a mere order of words unified by consonant repetition and inarticulate verbal echoes...

Author: By Patrick Odonnell, | Title: The Advocate | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

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