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Schramm, who says Reed is unassuming about his unusual educational background, concludes, "They must breed them well up in the goat farm...

Author: By Nara K. Nahm, | Title: Homeschoolers Are at Home at Harvard | 3/16/1989 | See Source »

...love only to the dying. Exotic details or metaphors not only impart a flavor of strangeness to the book, but also send a reader scurrying back and forth through the pages, trying to remember where he has come across a hand with two thumbs, a grave shaped like a goat or a fruit that resembles a live fish...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...home record to 3-2. Harvard's goal now that it is out of the Ivy League title race is to finish with a 5-5 record. The Crimson does not get much respect from local football squads. A big win over the B.U. would get the Terriers' goat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

...take the blame," Boggs said. "I take this loss personally. The goat one day can be the hero the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boggs Swings and Misses; A's Win, 2-1 | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

...which the protagonist never stops griping that his desires are repugnant to his morals. Tolstoy's diaries and instructional writings are engorged with this seriocomic theme, a fact that led Biographer Henri Troyat to conclude more than 20 years ago that Russia's literary icon was "a billy-goat pining for purity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Billy-Goat Pining for Purity TOLSTOY | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

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