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After the final whistle has blown, when the stadium is bleak in its emptiness, the football fan returns home, weary but exhilarated from his vicarious participation in "the game." And then, in the blah hours of the early morning, he will lighten the dark night of his soul by meditating on the fawnlike grace of a Lance Alworth, the brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend...
...French government's latest stab at educational reform. The reform frees lycee (secondary school) students, who take their first modern foreign language at the age of eleven, from the obligation of starting a second language when they are 13. The government's intention was benign: to lighten what Paris pedagogues have come to view as an excessively heavy academic burden. Instead, the idea has stirred up fierce opposition...
...carefully heightening my responses... I swept my hair back from my damp forehead... I cut in to lighten the air heavy from adversary debating...
...first act of the Committee on Undergraduate Education has brought credence to Dean May's promise of extensive curriculum reform. If approved by the Faculty, it will considerably lighten the course load for most Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates...
...Holy Cross faculty will hold a special meeting Saturday to discuss the suspensions and the issue of an open campus. Both the judicial board and the trustees have urged college president Raymond J. Swords to lighten the punishments given the demonstrators...