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Englishmen who fought at Ypres and the Somme carried the Oxford Book of English Verse in their haversacks; such literary brigades in the trenches would find their minds chiming with a line of Keats, or William Dunbar's Timor Mortis Conturbat Me. The Americans in Viet Nam usually packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

So now, here is, within the given limitations of time and space (in other words, Bill McCurdy vintage 1974-'76), the best of Bill McCurdy: On his own ability-- I feel that I'm probably the greatest coach in any legal sport. On losses to the Providence Friars-- They had...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

Against the Bruins, Harvard had a case of the three-week layoff blues, but nothing short of rigor mortis can justify losses to a Brown team that entered the contest with a 3-11 record.

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Crimson Cagers Split Weekend Games; Icemen Slaughter Helpless Tigers, 6-1 | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Rigor Mortis

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Friars, Minutemen Obliterate Crimson | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

"Campbell and [Captain Bill] Okerman met the early challenge really well," McCurdy said. "At the mile, though, with the team race already out of hand, Campbell could go no further, and toiled the rest of the way. Okerman, who is staging a deadly war with rigor mortis, dropped out after...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Friars, Minutemen Obliterate Crimson | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

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