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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anticipation of the tie, the Yale bench began to put its hands up in glee. Until the ball began to fall again, and each Eli noticed that it would fall harmlessly behind the goal...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Shumway Leads Field Hockey | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...brand of political humor borders on frightening. Sahl's staying power can be attributed to the fact that he remains neutral on political issues. Perhaps it's to a comic's advantage to have, as he declares, "No Values." Hearing him attack both conservatives and liberals with equal glee, however, sets one on edge. The lack of moral center ultimately distracts. How can he be funny if I can't figure out which angle this joke came from? The same Jewish joke told by a rabbi and by the Grand Wizard of the KKK has different connotations...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Mort Sahl Speaks | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

Clouds held the threat of rain for most of yesterday's opening exercises, but the skies cleared at the ceremony's conclusion. Three student singing groups the Collegium Musicum, Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club--performed...

Author: By Eliot Bush, | Title: 1619 First-Years to Register | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...child-custody battle; audience choices that provide a script with 16 endings; and a three-story house seen on one level (with actors tiptoeing up and down -- that is, back and forth -- along imaginary stairs). "Games are fun," Ayckbourn says, his doughy face suddenly aquiver with adolescent glee. "I hope someday to write a play set in an airport, with actual moving sidewalks and escalators and revolving baggage carousels. I just don't have an idea for what happens there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Farce Person Singular | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

Instead, she attended Bach concerts at Symphony Hall. And one fateful night, her musical forays paid off. In the tuxedo-clad ranks of the Harvard Glee Club, she found love at first sight...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Romance Blossomed In Wartime | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

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