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Granted, Harvard did score more goals against Wesleyan Wednesday than the team did its first three games last season. And granted it drubbed a team that had beaten it 1-0 last year. But that's simply not enough justification for all-night rowdiness and gleeful celebration...
Russian highlights include Archipenko's monumental nudes and a gleeful Mare Chagall work, "Self portrait with woman." In 1921, Chagall had not yet emigrated from Russia. A leading art educator in Vitebsk, he portrays himself happy, in familiar surroundings, a woman floating breezily from his hand like a kite...
Where many alumni do exert a unifying force is in their more casual interests about who gets into the College from the Philadelphia area. Almost all of the Harvard Club's officers were gleeful to see that Harvard this year admitted 23 students from the area, an increase of six over the previous year. A common strain of complaints issued by those involved with the Philadelphia end of admissions is that the metropolitan area should not be lumped in a region including the prolific Long Island school district, because the grouping heightens the competition for places to its fiercest level...
...most economists, the question no longer is whether but when the upturn will begin. Robert R. Nathan, who is head of his own economic consulting firm, expresses a gloomy outlook; he warns that the economy must still undergo severe readjustments, most notably in further inventory reductions. "To get too gleeful now is like saying, 'Great, we don't have cancer, just a serious infection.' " Nathan expects that if an upturn does take place this year, it will not occur until the fourth quarter...
...misses a turn. He fails in a second try and bangs his head in disgust. "I'm sorry, I will improve," Nureyev apologizes. Pale with concentration, he repeats the step with needle-sharp precision. Williams nods and his pupil jigs back and forth in fifth position like a gleeful schoolboy...