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...clubs battled to a 0-0 tie in the mud last Thursday in a game in which Leverett surprised a deeply talented but luckless Eliot House team. Eliot began to catch fire late in the second half, but it was too late to score the probable winning touchdown...
...love and death together more succinctly than in an etching of 1884 called Finis. It is the last plate in an ironical series on the life of a "fallen woman," throughout which Klinger essayed some bitter jabs at the prevailing Victorian hypocrisies about virginity and whoredom. The luckless and persecuted heroine, freed from life, is carried away by an angel, or maybe an ideal lover, sprawled on his wings as on a feather bed. "We flee the shadow of death, not death itself, for it is the ultimate goal of our fondest wishes," Klinger wrote elsewhere...
...industrial intricacies of postwar Hollywood. Attempting to retain artistic control over his films, he forms his own movie company, which fails. He goes from making innocuous Bing Crosby musicals to television science films to an ineffectual remake of his own Lady for a Day. After a few more luckless attempts to produce other movies, he settles into uneasy retirement...
...diplomaism continues to be a national disease. Business and Government alike insist upon unnecessary credentials on the part of job applicants. This not only creates a new caste of unemployables?the luckless but qualified people who lack the right degree?but it tends to confuse the real mission of education...
...Harvey's luckless defeat padded the Quakers' lead, and a pin by undefeated Mark Faller at 177 was counterbalanced by Dave Pottruck's 4-2 win over the Crimson's Tony Rayner, who wrestled in place of Dave Scanlon, at 190. Jim Abbott needed a pin at unlimited to tie the match, but Bob Kaufman played possum and salvaged...