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...inspiration provided by that triumph was quickly erased by the greeting the visitors received from Harvard's all-star Medley Relay team of Duncan Pyle, Tuomo Kerola, Malcolm Cooper, and Bobby Hackett. This fearsome foursome left their meek opponents in their wake by almost 15 full seconds in a race highlighted by the tremendously versatile Cooper's split of 50.9 for 100-yd. butterfly and the invincible Hackett's freestyle split...
...house, with two cats, a well-thumbed book of Frost's poetry and a bicycle to get around town. She too has published poems in the Atlantic -mostly free verse, of which Frost disapproved. Sample lines: "You too amaze me, houses of Brooklyn./ All day you are meek, you cup/ unhappiness like water/ when all you want is to be nothing but windows/ to take off into the sky like a flock of birds...
...hadn't reckoned on the rather unique security procedures in Anaheim. As my companion and I approached the escalator to make our descent, we noticed two private guards chasing away two teen-agers who had attempted to do the same. The guards had revolvers. We acknowledged them with meek smiles, and returned to our seats, somewhere in Burbank...
...subject from the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. Last year, CHUL voted 20 to 2 against the limited breakfast option. To avoid this kind of conflagration this year, Fox presented the plan to CHUL for discussion after he had made the decision, an action for which the normally-meek student-master body reprimanded him. A similar reaction seems likely from the House committees, as they receive North House's petition to reinstate hot breakfasts at all Houses. And the student population as a whole--almost half of which eats breakfast each day--is not pleased either...
Picture this: women sit in the executive suites and men in the typing pools. Women are aggressive and combative, and men are meek and passive. Women ogle waiters and crack bad jokes about sex while their male companions sit and fume. Imagine all that and you know most of what you need to know -or want to know-about All That Glitters, Norman Lear's new syndicated TV soap opera, premiering on 40 stations across the country this week...