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Harvard's Gary Farneti and Rick Gat to received honorable mention from the Eastern College Athletic Conference for their performances against Columbia last Saturday...
During the "gat" phase when the raga is set to a sixteen-beat rhythmic time cycle, and during the speeding climax of the "thala," there appears to be a heightened intensification-rather than a confusion-of the raga's mood, as Mirza and Khan seem to mysteriously coalesce in a musical vision of sheer symmetry...
...Texas, of all places, that liberated Willie. One night after a bout of fraternity hazing at the University of Texas, "I got mad," he reports, "probably the maddest I had ever been in my whole life-at homesickness, at blond majorettes, at gat-toothed Dallas girls, at twangy accents, at my own helpless condition. I'm better than this sorry place, I said to myself several times, and be damned if I didn't believe...
...even more painless stratagem is to latch on to a mystery or thriller writer who is not yet widely known. Fleming and le Carré, of course, are old-gat. So are Britain's Len Deighton (The Ipcress File) and John Creasey (Death of an Assassin), whose books have been made into movies. Georges Simenon, the prolific French author whose Inspector Maigret has solved more than 60 book-length cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising...
...elevator to his sparsely furnished fifth-floor office, unstraps his revolver, puts it into a desk drawer alongside a .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum. The Magnum has been there since last October, when Lodge received his umpteenth warning of a plot against his life. The ambassador regards the lethal little gat rather wryly. Says he: "I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer...