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...icemen controlled play during the last 30 minutes with crisp passes and tenacious forechecking. Although Harvard played without defensemen Mitch Olson (flu) and Scott Sangster (leg injury), the blueliners managed to avoid the jam-ups in front of the cage that had plagued past outings...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Icemen Swamp Princeton, 5-1 | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

Perfect execution has never been Crazy Horse's aim, but their pounding and buzzing are ideal for Young's meandering, jam session-like electric productions. The foursome strut through a sterling performance of "When You Dance I Can Really Love" to open the second set, and they render "The Loner" with equal abandon. Young sings of realm far away from the serenity of the Sugar Mountain, of people who are no longer children...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Neil Young, Unatarnished | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...course, affected men as well as women, and perhaps in some respects, more than women--not to speak of the children. If we can live through the next years of nuclear weapons peril, and the dangers within this country of civil strife--what I sometimes think of as traffic jam litigious democracy--I can envisage benign futures which some wings of the women's movement foreshadow with their combined interest in nurturing the oncoming population of children and tough-minded realism about contemporary affairs...

Author: By David Riesman, | Title: Nuclear Countdown | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...mess. Despite a growth rate of about 8% this year, the bulk of the country's 40 million people remain desperately poor, with an average income of under $300 (vs. $2,700 for Israel). In the past year, thousands of peasants have abandoned the land to jam into the already swollen cities in hope of sharing in a peace-bred boom. Thus unemployment is soaring at a time when inflation is hovering above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Egypt's Promise of Peace | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...circle the stage, his blind tom-cat to her broken-winged sparrow, until Tom lowers his tail, breaks the silence in order to regain the peace of their barren thicket. A breakable pane hangs between them always, a horse-drawn past and jet-lured future caught in the same jam of traffic but still enveloped in the mist and mystery of dreams...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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