Word: karp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Editor Harvard, 28-17 Colgate, 63-0 Cornell, 2-0 Holy Cross, 49-35 Yale, 92-6 2-2 16-11, .593 MICHAEL BASS Associate Sports Editor Harvard, 15-14 Colgate, 63-0 Dartmouth, 24-10 Holy Cross 56-0 Yale, 77-3 2-2 16-11, .593 ANDREW KARP Staff Writer Princeton, 28-10 Colgate, 17-14 Dartmouth, 28-12 Holy Cross, 35-6 Yale, 24-20 -- -- JIM MATHESON LARRY KAHN Football Announcers, WHRB Guest Selectors Harvard, 38-17 Colgate, 38-14 Dartmouth, 38-7 Holy Cross, 38-3 Yale...
...other news, Andrew "Hic" Karp led The Crimson to a 23-2 victory over the Daily Dartmouth on the Kennedy School field this morning...
Despite its gargantuan doomed predecessor--the thrown-away thousands of pages--Fish is a lean volume, just 217 pages. It concerns the narrator, a private school teacher named Karp by his parents but nicknamed Fish by his girlfriend, who tries to escape from a life of "vagueing," in the author's memorable verb. Through Fish, his pathetic girlfriend and her mysteriously ailing son, the book is a portrait of a peculiar American social stratum, the educated middle class--the people whose material needs are inevitably satisfied and whose spiritual needs go inexorably unmet. They are the people who keep psychologists...
...complicated architecture that is never overly complex for the narrator. From the wonderful opening sentence--an artful ramble redolent of neurosis--to Fish's oddly inspirational conclusion, Engel works with remarkable control. He tells us enough about the characters, but does not burden us with more than what Harry Karp would wish to say. He savors details but doesn't fawn on them...
Others worry less that private funds will cramp styles. "Art has always had little to do with the economic currents of society; perhaps the cuts will provide an anxiety stimulus," Irving Karp, owner of the OK Harris gallery, in New York's SoHo, says. "I don't believe that there will be change in the genre of the works produced in the theater," Bob Moss, producer of March of the Falsettos, and current executive director of Playwrights Horizons, adds. "We have always produced what we believe in, what we know how to produce, rather than what we thought might make...