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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard had a monster recruiting year," Woods added. "It won't be long before Harvard is at the top again. It's a recruiting year that Stanford would be proud...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Brown Buries Netmen; Bruins Surprise, 8-1 | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...victory improved Hurst's record in his home field to a surprising 21-7 since 1986. Fenway Park is considered particularly hostile to lefthanded pitchers because of the close leftfield fence, but Hurst seems to have tamed the Green Monster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Slip by Brewers, 3-1 | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

...perhaps it should not be surprising that the latest of Doris Lessing's more than 30 books tells of the birth of a monster. Throughout her long, distinguished career, Lessing has specialized in bucking currents. Her early fiction carried a strong, if artfully submerged, feminist message. Later, when the women's movement gathered force, she did not join the parade but rather devoted her energy to a cycle of five science-fiction novels. She criticized the West when its power seemed paramount. When the enemies of democracy grew threatening, she changed her emphasis; in The Good Terrorist (1985) she showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Is Where the Horrors Are THE FIFTH CHILD | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Unfortunately, for students dissatisfied with large class sizes, the Core offers very few alternatives to the "Monster Cores." The best courses (according to the CUE Guide) and the easiest (according to Crimson editors) are consistently huge. Thus, these students are forced to endure the inaccessibility of the professor, the bureaucracy of sectioning, the personal quirks of the teaching fellow army, and the inevitable race for the Coop's inadequate book supply...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: Re-Core-ded Live at Sanders | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

...degrees, enormously simplifying the aiming of the instrument. It is probably the world's only building with snowplow blades on its corners to clear a path as it rotates about a circular track. When its doors open, they reveal not a sleek, tubular telescope, but a six-eyed monster, a hexagonal array of half a dozen 72-inch mirrors, the sum of whose images equals the capacity of a single mirror 176 inches across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: White-Knuckle Astronomy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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