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...lost since the basketball and hockey teams will be taking a working vacation. You can catch a few games and when you find frost on all those precious plants one icy morning and run out of toilet paper and can't steal more since the libraries are closed, you can always think of the tough schedules which the Crimson teams are facing...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: You Thought You Had It Bad | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...Eliot, Robert Frost, John Dos Passos, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell. All these literary luminaries went to Harvard but none majored in Option III, the creative writing program within the English concentration. Of course, they were all here well before the advent of the option a short five years ago, but even if they had had the opportunity to apply for admission to the highly selective program, one might wonder if any of the above writers would have been accepted...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The New Yorker Model: Writing to Please Harvard | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...even slower rate of growth in the third quarter. Though official Government estimates on expansion for the period will not be out until this week, most economists have already scaled down their earlier growth forecasts from 4% to 3%, or less. All at once fear settled like a fall frost on Wall Street, chilling investor confidence and sending stock prices spiraling downward in the worst plunge of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Casting a Vote of Less Confidence | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Over the years, Kahn has discovered that several unlikely enthusiasts have shared his feeling for sports. "Keats was a great boxing fan," he says. "And once, during a late summer afternoon discussion, Robert Frost leaned toward me and confided, 'My family thought I would waste my life and be a pitcher. Then they said that I would waste my life and be a poet.' " Remembers Kahn: "Frost grinned as he added, They were right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 11, 1976 | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...took off immediately for the Rhodesian border town of Umtali, where the annual congress of his Rhodesian Front Party was under way. Though it seems hard to imagine, Smith is a moderate by Rhodesian standards, and at Umtali he faced a right-wing revolt led by Party Chairman Desmond Frost, who would like to split Rhodesia into black and white sectors under overall white control. After six hours of speechmaking and debate, Smith forced the issue in a dramatic scene. "Are you with me or are you not?" he demanded. "For God's sake, be honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Shuttling Between Black and White | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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