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Northeastern did rap out a homer, two triples and a double, but the latter three require an explanation. Unaccustomed to playing on Parsons Field's bizarre half-grass, half-astroturf outfield, Crimson gardeners Chalie Santos-Buch and Paul Scheper misjudged high-bouncing base hits and the Huskies picked up two of their four runs as a result...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Nine Nips Huskies | 4/8/1980 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Larson settled down after a shaky start. The big righthander surrendered a fourth-inning homer to Oscarson and a triple and double to Jim Tierney, but as he heated up so did his pitches...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Larson Five-Hits Friars, 4-3, As Crimson Divides Twinbill | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...these weren't just hits. For merly a singles hitter, (.284 last year with just six of 39 hits for extra bases) Kelley opened the nightcap with a long double and rocketed a two-run homer in the second inning, equaling his last year's four-bagger production...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Calm, Cool, Connecting | 4/5/1980 | See Source »

...chronological reasons, Barton had to supply the second play in "The War" himself. He has culled it from Homer and called it Achilles. Considering the audacity of the work, the result is exemplary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Olympus on the Thames | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

When the wily Odysseus (Church), he whom Homer called "the man of many devices," thinks up the ruse of the Trojan horse, Troy falls. In Trojan Women by Euripides, the women are to be parceled out among the victors. Queen Hecuba (Eliza Ward) leads the women in a keening catalogue of I woe: she has lost her husband Priam, her son Hector, and will eventually lose all of her children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Olympus on the Thames | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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