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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced its new executive board yesterday after an uncontested election--a trend over the past few years...
Other members of the new board include Patricia C. Gadecki '81, vice president; Joan Feigenbaum '81, treasurer; Anne Maccoby '82, secretary; and Martha Hoefer '81 and Madeline Carter '83, representatives to the Radcliffe Board of Trustees...
...Gatto '69, who led Tufts to its first unbeaten-untied football season in 48 years, was named coach of the year yesterday by the New England Football Writers Association...
Letters, By John Barth. (Putnam, $16.95): John Barth's endless epistolary novel takes five of the author's old characters and one new one and sets them to writing letters, usually not to each other but to dead people, themselves, imaginary characters, or the author. The letters go on forever through 700 pages, and though Barth's details follow an intricately laid-out pattern, there seems to be very little point to it all. Barth's writing remains contortedly witty, and alone gives Letters some value, but Barth might have shown some regard or consideration for his readers and restrained...
Diaghilev, By Richard Buckle (Atheneum. $22.95): For the same price you can take Amtrak--one way--to New York and see the Diaghilev exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But what then will you put on your coffee table? Though it makes a great living room conversation-piece, Buckle's work is also a splendid introduction to the Diaghilevian/magnificence on which much of Russia's cultural accomplishments in the first third of this century were based...