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...most successful coach in the college's intercollegiate hockey history, but he gave much more to this community than coaching knowledge alone," Colgate President Neil R. Grabois said in a press release. "With his quick sense of humor, his grace and his style, he was a friend to many of us, and a wonderful ambassador for the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colgate Hockey Coach Terry Slater Dies at 54 | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

...this sustains the book. Finally, the Sniffer is revenged, the present accounted for and Gil learns, ironically, to "Wake up, man! Come alive! Feel before you think! "The true joy of the novel is not in the final revenge nor even in the final lesson, but in the grace and wit with which Davies renders a history and in the sweet and artful confusion of Gil's afterlife...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: A Murther at the Movies | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

...austere ruler and awakens Gertrude's passion and love. Metcalf depicts Claudius as the ultimate politician-charming and charismatic whenever it suits him. In comparison, the Ghost (Miguel Perez) is presented as a frightening imposition on poor Hamlet's time, rather than an inspiration to avenge. Claudius' appealing grace undermines the Ghost's severe dignity, and, as a result, the audience understands Hamlet's delay in killing his uncle...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: The Madness of Hamlet's World | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

...incident, three students, part of a crowd of several dozen gathered in Harvard Yard, streaked naked across the Yard, as Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burris Young '55 and two Harvard police officers stood nearby, according to bystander Grace T. Samodal...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: First Snow: First-Years Grin and Bare It | 12/4/1991 | See Source »

FOOTNOTE: *In dictating to his secretary, Grace Tully, the short speech in which he would ask Congress to declare war against Japan, Roosevelt originally said, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world history, the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked." Reviewing the typescript, Roosevelt crossed out "world history" with his pen and wrote "infamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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