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Princeton returns everyone (yes, everyone) from last year's 10-4 squad, which swept its last eight games but could catch Brown in the Ivy race. Coach Bill Muse is in his fifth year as coach, and his aggressive recruiting efforts have finally borne fruit...
...experience the principles of mechanical equilibrium, which kept the Gemini space capsule, conveniently on exhibit near by in a mockup, on target. In Jacksonville, a children's museum features a model of the ear, nose and throat canals large enough to crawl through. The Boston Children's Muse um has an area called Grandmother's Attic, where gold lame dresses and high-button shoes can be tried on. In Indianapolis, which last year became the site of the world's largest children's museum with the opening of a five-acre, $6.8 million building...
Braudel's sweeping view is particularly influential just now, for American historiography and historical teaching have been torn by internecine warfare in recent years. Against the traditional view that history should be based on documentary evidence-and artistically inspired by the Muse Clio-the innovators known as Cliometricians argue that truth can best be found in computer analyses of population movements, interest rates and other social data. Still others explain old riddles by invoking the theories of sociology and psychoanalysis. New voices insist that it should serve the purposes of racial justice or economic reform. In contrast...
REVERENTLY I TRUDGED down the well-worn stairs to the basement of the sacred Rat. To Boston rockers, the beer-soaked carpet of the Rathskellar is hallowed ground: it bears the libations of scores touched by a wayward muse. This particular night, the faithful fixtures at the Rat included familiar faces. Musicians, regulars on the local scene, conferred in the dark corner near the mixing board; groupies, punks and curious bedazzled figures crowded the tables. At the bar a gauntlet of black leather elbows lifted steins in homage to the spectacle on stage...
England's 17th Poet Laureate was not without sympathizers. Said Poet Geoffrey Grigson: "Betjeman is not really to blame. The problem is having to get emotional about the monarchy at all." History seems to support Grigson's point. Most Laureates have found the muse reluctant to lower herself for mere royalty. At the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, C. Day Lewis, Betjeman's predecessor, had to make do with "You princely babe, you pretty dear/ For you we bring/ The birthday honors of the quickening year." He could have done worse. When the future Edward...