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...Younger, more imaginative men have challenged Jakob's beloved structure of classical physics, undermining the foundations of his intellectual world. Advancing age has confronted him with a more direct challenge, making him doubt his own usefulness and weakening his will to live. Seated in his study and spreading jam made from turnips on bread made from substances whose origins he dares not guess, Jakob watches night descend and reminisces about a life spent in the struggle to discern the laws underlying the physical world...
Because play was at the other end. Brooke's action went unnoticed by referee Pierre Boulanger, although just about everybody else in the jam-packed arena saw it. "There's no use complaining because it be didn't see it, he didn't see it," Harvard Coach Billy Cleary said after the game. "There's nothing...
...kickoff time, 75,000 individuals will jam the huge Bowl for the first "formal" New Haven Harvard-Yale Game since before the War. Together with their colored feathers and old fur coats, they bring traditions and memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...
...Administration can expect only meager and uncertain rewards for the gigantic risk it took of having its credibility in foreign policy destroyed had the AWACS sale been rejected. Why it did so can be explained in only one way: the President and his aides never fully realized what a jam they were getting into until it was almost too late to pull out. That, in turn, points to serious flaws in the Administration's foreign policymaking apparatus, which have persisted throughout its nine months in office, in part perhaps because Reagan directed the initial energies and attentions of his Administration...
...which Jagger and Richards built the many styles they explored and eventually mastered later on. It is, for instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British Invasion--not musically, at least. They wanted that "really good funky American sound," from the start, Richards announced in 1964. That...