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Crimson coach John Chase and the coaches of BU, BU, Northeastern and Brown favor the projected Eastern League. Chase said yesterday that "the present New England League is unbalanced and the Pentagonal League is too small. An additional larger league would certainly heighten local hockey interest...
Good melodrama, like good farce, has its nonrealistic rules; it lowers actuality to heighten effect. The Man violates the rules. Once criminality is portrayed as a kind of malignant disease, it is hardly better than cancer as a theme for entertainment...
...common eating table. Since most of the warfare took the form of inter-class fights, the Common was transferred to University Hall in 1816, and each class had its own room on the first floor. But this only made things worse, for the restriction turned out to heighten class spirit. Circular holes in the walls soon appeared, and missiles went flying through them. A typical freshman-sophomore fight on a Sunday evening in 1819 was commemorated in the poem, "The Rebelliad...
...Manhattan, the Royal Roost, hoping to heighten bebop's moral and intellectual tone, opened a milk bar for teen-agers in the yellow leather corral. A learned study of bebop by Jazz Columnist Leonard Feather was under way, and a letter had been dispatched to Bernard Shaw to get his opinion on the whole thing...
...People. As to civil rights, the platform recommended prompt legislation "to end [the] infamy" of lynching; and urged abolition of the poll tax. The embarrassing point might be made that the 80th Congress had shown no great eagerness to tackle such civil-rights legislation. But the G.O.P. pledge would heighten the embarrassment of Democrats when they came to write their own plank...