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Only three Crimson teams won league championships--squash, hockey and soccer--but 16 of the 17 varsity squads compiled records of .500 or better. The basketball quintet, traditionally an occupant of the nether reaches of the Ivy League, was the only team to lose more games than...
Ishihara's segment is the most powerful, although also the most unconvincing, in the series. Building on the surrealism in the script with sharp lighting and an enquiring camera, Ishihara places his characters in a nether-nether land, suspended between a nightmare and reality...
...need not quibble over the scientific premises to question the final relevance of Miss Laski's play. A playwright is of course entitled to make use of a nether-world such as her postwar England; but a good writer uses it to comment on reality rather than to indulge a hypothetical vision. Miss Laski's commentary lacks political validity: in presenting her image of nuclear destruction, she strains toward praise of an isolationist status quo. Thus Rachel Verney informs her Amercan rescuer, "for five years I've been free from guilt. I've lived in peace with my family...
...south end will be a shrine: the Arch of Freedom, in which the original of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will be on display. In the same area will be a museum, a library, the state archives building, and an outdoor amphitheater. Automobiles will be banished to the nether regions. Vehicles will unload on two levels below the promenade, and beneath the reflecting pools will be parking space for 3,000 cars...
...monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally paths of ice, and a man could have skated 100 miles from Boulogne to Beauvais. As rivers and canals froze in The Nether lands, droves of ice skaters turned out, and 50 drowned in a single day. In some places along Europe's Baltic coast, the sea itself was turning...