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...people lose their jobs if they don't publish. Every field becomes fair prey for new books. But the academic jargon doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood of the likeable losing neurotic. And the extent of his success would suggest that he touches...
...Harvard students interviewed yesterday said they would use the Center's services. "You've got to be a loser to use it," J. Christopher Ahrens '81 said...
...right to vote in Cambridge. Last year, he drafted the bill passed by the current city council that has slowed the pace of rapid conversion. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Law School, Sullivan works as an attorney for the secretary of state. A loser by only eight votes in his first council bid a year ago, he has won the endorsement of both the Cambridge Civic Association and the Rent Control Task Force...
...YEARS LATER this memory couldn't have been farther from George Scott's eyes, or closer to Carl Yastrzemski's. Like one man. One frustrated, effaced, proud, loser of a man, whose endless beers never turn to champagne in the Causeway St. bar after the game, after the seasons, ever since 1918. Up on the wall behind the bartender and mountains of bottles are portraits of Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Jim Lonborg, Carl Yastrzemski, and John F. Kennedy. They all got away...
...other hand, in November of 1967 the Greater Laconia-Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce had as its guest speaker the former Vice President, Richard Nixon, a loser in the 1962 California gubernatorial election and more recently a Wall Street lawyer. Nixon was aware of his reduced station. He seemed properly humble as he sat at the head table, listening appreciatively to the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. He even grinned at the jokes told by the chairman of the organizing committee for a forthcoming dinner dance, who went into some detail about preparations, and told his listeners...