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PRINCETON. N.J.--As is their custom. Harvard and Princeton played another of their thrilling, classic tennis matches Saturday, deep inside monstrous Jadwin Gymnastum. And as is its custom. Princeton held off a desperate Harvard rally in the doubles matches to win, 5-4, and set itself up for a showdown with Columbia in late April for the EITA title...

Author: By John L. Powers, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Princeton Frustrates Netmen, 5-4 | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...candidates, the primaries must I loom like some monstrous political version of the Great Wall of China: an awesome structure, stretching on and on, that has never decided a battle. As they campaigned in Wisconsin, the Democratic candidates were already showing serious signs of wear and tear. Yet this was only the fourth primary; there are a staggering 19 still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Are Primaries Necessary? | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...comes the twist: The p.r. man stumbles on evidence that the Gospel according to James may be a monstrous forgery. Deviled by doubt, haunted by hope, he enters an investigation that un foldsas an absorbing theological thriller. So absorbing in fact that readers may wonder if there isn't a misprint on the title page. There isn't. This entertaining puzzler was actually produced by Irving Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WORD: The Book of Irving | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

Scott waxes intense in defense of Indians, both as a play and as an expression of a monstrous injustice. The treatment of the native American is one of the darkest -- and most often ignored--chapters in this country's history, he says. Tonto and Land o'Lakes butter and every television Western you've ever seen only add ridicule to atrocity. "The play is today's headlines," Scott says. In the Times that day -- the story of an aged Indian kicked, beaten and mutilated to death by a group of drunken whites at a dance...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: With Harold Scott | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

...mistakes his tears for libido. Gleaming icicles of detail fall from the page. Sizing up the woman's pleasant study, the man thinks, "I wouldn't like it if my wife had a room like this." Like a weary warrior goddess, Lessing views the seduction step by monstrous step. The woman gives in out of pity for the lout. "The stupid cow, the slut," he concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Irate Accent | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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