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...living quarters. "In those days," recalls Physics Professor John Kidder, "you could go all week without seeing a woman on campus. Then came carnival and women were everywhere. It made the whole place electric." Says another old grad: "You can't imagine the anticipation, the apprehension, the inevitable letdown...
Norton's tally--her seventh of the season--proved to be the winner, as Harvard's customary third-period letdown did not prove fatal. The firepower of Norton wasn't all Harvard skaters had going for them on Saturday, though...
...Harvard women's basketball team, suffering from fatigue and letdown after the Ivy League championships last weekend, dropped its third game in four contests Saturday, falling, 82-79, to South Eastern Massachusetts, at North Adams, Mass...
Smith, a 6-ft. 1-in. freshman, echoed her teammates sentiments about the letdown. "We peaked at the Ivies and we've had some trouble after. We just have to keep the intensity going," she said yesterday...
...Chamberlain's dreams... the Aborigines... the strange events in the weather. But it's too easy. Weir has spent a great deal of time building tension, creating atmosphere, invloving the audience, and to resolve the entire plot with the old voodoo hocus-pocus is an irritating letdown. Furthermore, Weir gets increasingly caught up in making The last Wave a disaster-movie morality-play--maybe these primitive people aren't so primitive, maybe the white people have destroyed a much more advanced civilization (shades of Chariots of the Gods). "Why didn't you tell me there were mysteries?" wails Chamberlain...