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...else do you explain a 17-point final spread in a game between two evenly-matched teams? Bentley boasted no unstoppable gargantuan offense, no impenetrable defense, no overwhelming size or skill advantages. The Falcons simply had fewer letdowns--they made fewer mistakes...
...Monterey Bay (students quickly dubbed the resort-like U.C.S.C. "Uncle Charley's Summer Camp"). Another was Santa Cruz's remarkable educational mission. Clark Kerr, longtime president of California's statewide university, had conceived Santa Cruz as a quiet, human-sized island within the state's gargantuan system. It was built around a collection of intimate colleges for students and faculty, as at Oxford. To Kerr's unexceptionable dream were added other more radical ideas in tune with the rebellious '60s. One campus house, Kresge College, was briefly run as a floating encounter group...
...PLAY opens, Dysart is an emotional void, a man whose powerful intelligence has numbed him to his painful existence. A dry, analytical shrink, his self-obsession reaches gargantuan proportions. Given to endless Dostoyevskian musings about his place in the Universe, Dysart recognizes the shallowness of his life, but refuses to deal with it--instead, tossing off witty, erudite quips about his plight. His ability to diagnose and categorize all his quirks and impulses merely intensifies his self-loathing. He realizes his compulsion to play God, to tackle the illnesses of his patients so that he can absorb their agony, thus...
...leaders would prefer to rely on the Federal Government for help, but until that traditional cornucopia spills open, an increase in property taxes, which would not bring in enough, is about the only course of action available. Still, Koch has just about managed to eliminate the city's once gargantuan short-term debt of $4.5 billion. As Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation and the city's chief financier, told TIME'S Frederick Ungeheuer: "The city is clearly stronger than it was five years ago. But it will take at least two consecutive years of balanced budgets without...
Census officials are not at all surprised by the commotion. Slip-ups are just about inevitable in an undertaking as gargantuan as this year's $1 billion effort to reach the nation's 86 million households and then process the answers contained on 120 million forms. It is to uncover major inaccuracies that the bureau decided to issue tentative findings this year. The disclosure is part of a new review process in which the early field counts, along with the maps of housing units used by census takers in making their tally, are being sent to the nation...