Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresh from a night of trick-or-treating, the "Ghost of Harvard Soccer Teams Past" slipped out to Tufts yesterday afternoon to pull a few tricks on the unsuspecting Crimson...
Whatever the case, it is clear that the backs and forwards did not work together in bringing the ball up the field and the team (4-4-4) has not notched a win in their last six games. One can only hope that the "Ghost of Harvard Soccer Teams Present" will replace his predecessor by Saturday's game with Penn. New England Soccer Poll W-L-T 1. Brown 7-4-1 2. Vermont 11-2-1 3. Rhode Island 7-3-1 4. Boston University 9-5-2 5. UMass 7-4-0 6. Dartmouth...
From Palm Springs come the genial protests of Gerald Ford, who also liked to close the day with two martinis (5 to 1) and when things went well (or badly) had three. The ghost of De Voto is walking the land, recalling the poetry in the first martini: "The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted . . . your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart . . . the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going...
...unusual touch in Auerbach's rather lengthy autobiography is that it does not seem to be completely ghost-written, as is the manner of most sports books. Instead. each chapter contains an historical text by Joe Fitzgerald, a longtime Boston sport-writer including comments about Red from players, relatives, friends and enemies (including the references he terrorized for years), and a few pages of italicized comments from Red himself, which read like transcribed tapes. The result is, surprisingly enough, a lot more readable and interesting than most sports books, which are generally aimed at an eighth-grade audience...
...opera is a congenial ghost story freely adapted from a Henry James tale...