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Harvard's varsity sailing team--rebuilding after the graduation last year of two All-Americans and boasting mainly juniors and sophomores--placed fourth out of five schools in the Greater Bostons Monday and in the Geiger Trophy regatta Sunday, both on the Charles...
...attempt to strengthen the attack, Munro has moved junior John Hagerty from midfield up front. Hagerty, the second leading scorer last year, will play with Steve Milliken, Steve Leahy, and sophomore Grant Geiger, who was top freshman scorer last year...
...territory he traverses is not new, Rabe strides across it with such intensity that the playgoer is raptly involved. What Sticks and Bones lacks is size and scope. Rabe is good enough so that he ought to ponder what makes a dramatist an enduring force rather than simply a Geiger counter of his times. The Greeks and the Elizabethans, who deemed men valiant heroes as great as their doom, produced awesome drama. It is the current American fashion to see men as brain-bleached automatons, and our drama has shrunk to precisely those mean, narrow and dispiriting dimensions...
...Crimson won another significant trophy on Sunday in the five-team field in a M. I. T. Invitational for the Geiger Trophy, a four divisional event using different style boats...
First in Vogue snippets, then in an early novel, and later in ultrapersonal magazine columns, the Didion girl-woman has taken shape. She is as sensitive as a Geiger counter, articulate in feeling but not in speech, an incurable romantic with vast moral expectations of herself and others-especially men. From her essays, faithful readers know that Joan Didion herself came to New York right after college, when "nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach." Her life was changed by a lengthy romance with a callous fellow who force-fed her on more cynical wisdom of the world. When...