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Sunday saw the Crimson four--skipper Gordon Burnes and crew Petra Schumann in the "A" Division and skipper Peter Wagner and crew Jeff Kurland in the "B" Division--hold the lead until the 15th of 16 races...

Author: By Anita Ramasastry, | Title: Schell Shocked: Harvard Sails to a Second | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...October 21 panel discussion will feature Sen. Gordon Humphries (R-N.H.), Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), and Kurt Lohbeck, a freelance film-maker for CBS News who will show footage of conditions in the war-torn country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reps, Dems Plan Lots of Events | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...Nick's friendly, eccentric old landlady, the late Ruth Gordon plays the same role she has played since Rosemary's Baby, although she does not chase Close around with mandrakes and bat sperm in this picture...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Maxie Misses By a Mile | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...them. The reality is more tragic. They refuse to see themselves! Instead, many take refuge in the rhetoric of "racism at Harvard" as though matriculation at such heavenly institutions as Howard University or the University of Liberia was not an option. Still others wax "cosmopolitan" (borrowing Milton M. Gordon's term, read anglo-conformist) partaking of that sacred cultural narcotic: interracial mating. These equally counterproductive behavioral patterns serve predictable cathartic functions. For example, the word racism has immense deflective utility. It is frequently an excellent semantic device for obfuscating the internal roots of group failings. Thus it may facilitate avoiding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let the Debate Begin | 10/9/1985 | See Source »

...sympathetic in each character, yet often defers such revelations until the obvious humor has been exhausted. Still, the self-examinations can be potent: the spiteful teenager closes the first act with a blazing speech about how she would like to emulate the indifference to pain of her "hero," G. Gordon Liddy, but she cannot deny the agony of thrusting her hand, or her soul, into a flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Let a Hundred Lilys Bloom the Search for Signs of Intelligent | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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