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Like the Industrial Revolution in England, the deeper you looked, the worse things got for the Lords, as the Crimson racquetmen at the bottom of the ladder dispatched their opponents with ease...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Racquetmen Down Amherst in Opener | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

Third-year man John Stubbs has a firm grip on the number three spot behind Havens. The former Milton Academy stand-out saw a lot of action last season at five and has moved up two rungs on the ladder this year due to the departure of seniors Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Face Amherst | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...like Secretary of State, trussed up in a chair and holds the weap on to the dignitary's head, while the pair reach a tongue-blistering stalemate on the accommodations of power vs. the demands of conscience. Two ideas have entered Doctorow's play on a double ladder of descent. Ennui, anomie - the catatonic state of buried lives - was summed up by Kierkegaard when he called despair "the sickness unto death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Party Pooper | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...says as he drives down Francis Ave. "285 to base...Out of service at the Sachs Estate," he radios in. "The behavioral sciences are good to study--it helps you deal with people. We all have a different way of our fuses going off. It's like a step ladder-we either revert to the lower level or we rise to the higher one. Cognitive is what I'd like all people to be--a cognitive person will say 'we,' and an egocentric person is always thinking what's best for 'me'." He walks through the Estate, which is known...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: No Molotovs | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...scene is rustic Cortland, N.Y., the team Cornell, the score knotted at one-all, the pressure overbearing in the sudden-death overtime. A Cornell goal means no tomorrow in the single-elimination Eastern tournament, the first step on the ladder to the nationals. It happens. Get out the Crimson hankies...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Mary Howard: Captain and Character | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

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