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Singles--1 Joy Cummings (P) d Elizabeth Evans, 6-4 6-2 2 Pia Tamayo (P) d Enca Schulman 6-4 6-2 3 Mana Pe (H) d Jan Sheburne 6-4, 7-5 4. Tina Bougas (H) d Jan Sheiburne 6-4, 7-54. Tina Bougas (H) d Anne Rentew 6-3 6 2 5 Jeannie Weinberg (P) d Debbe Kaufman 6 2 6 1 6 Deanne Loonan (H) d Robin Rosenberg...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Princeton Tops Netwomen As Evans, Schulman Fall | 5/6/1982 | See Source »

...quotation attributed to me in Monday's Crimson report on the MANA concert and the protest outside, while accurate, inadequately represented the views of those who demonstrated. As I stated to the Crimson reporter before, and several times during, the rally, a nuclear weapons freeze at current levels would solidify the imbalance of power between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviets would be unlikely to honor such an agreement, as demonstrated by their violation of chemical warfare accords and refused to permit accurate verification of earlier nuclear weapons treaties. Those who demonstrated feel that only by demonstrating resolve never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nuclear War | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

Sophomore number two player Martha Roberts, however, did not adjust to the wind quickly, recovered the second set, and her consistent opponent, Mana Rodgers, prevailed...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Racquetwomen Finish Season With 5-4 Triumph Over Bruins | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...active New York feminist who graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota and Oxford, Millett views male supremacy as a myth that has been kept alive for thousands of years by a grandiose patriarchal conspiracy. "Primitive society," she writes, "practices its misogyny in terms of taboo and mana which evolve into explanatory myth. In historical cultures, this is transformed into ethical, then literary, and in the modern period, scientific rationalizations for the sexual politic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up Against the Men's Room Wall | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

Collector-Photographer (LIFE) Eliot Elisofon, who organized the show, put his finger on what the primitive artists were after: not beauty so much as life. In fact, says Elisofon, some of the objects "were believed to be alive by their makers. An important belief of the Polynesians was in mana, an impersonal supernatural power. Sculptures contained mana." Such modern sculptors as Lipchitz, Gonzalez, David Smith and Brancusi are not far from this idea, and for mana they, too, sacrifice resemblance. "The primitive artist and the modern one," says Elisofon, "both produce more of what they feel than of what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MANA FROM HARVARD | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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