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With a sixth skater on the ice, the Crimson pressed for the final half minute. With just two seconds remaining on the clock, the referee whistled a face-off in front of the B.U. net and there was still a glimmer of hope. But the Terriers won the face-off and the game...
...Glimmer of Hope. The scarcely unexpected results promise no quick or easy end to Ulster's agony. But the relatively large turnout of voters provides a glimmer of hope for Ulster moderates who want to give the British government plan of having both Catholics and Protestants share provincial political power a chance to work. By and large, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army failed in its efforts to get voters to "Spoil Your Vote and Smash the System," as one of the Proves' newspaper...
...that was thanks to the experimentation of people like Pynchon, William Gass, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover who were busy providing a set of new literary forms aching for new literary content. And now, just in the past year or so, two novels have appeared that make glimmer the hope that the old Genre might be back on her feet before long. Gravity's Rainbow, when it is working, is one of these, Updike's Rabbit Redux is another...
...turn-of-the-century world where two sisters and a servant attend the third sister just before her death. The whispers which make up life and the cries which punctuate it lead nowhere; the daying woman finds joy before her death because her family is near, but this lyrical glimmer is not a way out for those still alive. Bergman's most recent film, in color, with brilliant cinematography by Sven Nykvist. 1972. The Naked Night. During a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each trying...
...read with interest your piece "A Glimmer of Light?" about drug treatment [Dec. 11]. I also agree with Psychiatrist Vernon Patch that the chances of remaining drug free after leaving most institutions hardly ever amount to more than...