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...headline of the article reads "Harvard's Low-Key Athletic Program Bothers Bielanski." It quotes him as saying that Harvard is a "good place for the student but not for the student-athlete." He considered the academic program excellent but felt that it was no place for anyone who wanted to play "very competitive big-time athletics...
...episodes in Mr. Sammler." said Saul Bellow "are meant to be typical of the madness in New York City middle-class life. But," he adds with characteristic low-key irony, "I may be a little behind...
...skinny (185 lbs.), with blond hair, blue eyes, belled teeth, slightly bowed ears, and a resemblance to a tall pencil or a short television tower. Meanwhile, in one film after another for the past two years, Sutherland has been filling the screen with a low-key presence that has left critics grasping for adjectives and audiences grasping for his name. All that is changing, however, for he is becoming established as one of the finest talents in the cinematic youth movement...
AFTER the many months of argument among expensive attorneys, confused public officials and embattled judges in two states, the long-awaited inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne proved unexpectedly low-key and uneventful. Intruding upon the wintertime serenity of Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, the inquest gave Senator Edward Kennedy new hope that he may yet recover from the public disgrace of the night his car hurtled off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island...
...similar reply would follow the NCAA's action at its convention last Thursday, when Yale was prohibited from participating in any post season tournaments of events for two years. But the letter drafted by Dale R. Corson Cernell's president and chairman of the Ivy Committee was surprisingly low-key...