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...discovery was a small ceramic oil lamp, brown and contoured so that it fit his hand. It looked like a teapot without a cover and with the spout fashioned to hold a wick. Two jagged lines on the outside marked the places where a handle, the most fragile part of a ceramic piece, had been fastened. By studying the shapes of the lamp and comparing it with another lamp taken from a local tomb, archeologists were able to date the wreck--at about...
Bullitt smiles when he talks about that lamp. When he does anything, whether it is studying eighteenth century literature or spending hours aloft in a rented Cessna 150 working for a pilot's license, or playing a weekly game of tennis with John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, he does it whole-hog, with an eye to getting good results...
About two o'clock yesterday afternoon it occured to me I was going to get to be the first person to call a Pudding show camp. The thought was dizzying. How could a Tiffany lamp compare with a kick line of fat, hairy, drunken, grimacing clubbies in falsies? Here was the definitive example. Everyone would say uhuh and perhaps even Time magazine would stop using the word...
Play Something. He is also an inveterate raconteur. "I love to talk," he says. "But I jump around. If I tell you I like this lamp, I'm likely to start talking about Nietzsche or pre-Bach music or Chinese art or God knows what...
...Crimson, sluggish at the start of the 10:30 a.m. encounter at Hanover Saturday, fell behind, 2-1, to the Indians, playing their most inspired hockey of the year. But the six-minute frenzy, which also included a goal by Don Grimble and a nullified lamp-lighter by Pete Waldinger, was more than enough to subdue outclassed Dartmouth...