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...fans suffer from chronic lethargy and apathy, something of which the Band has never been able to cure them, although it has tried and is still trying. However, as in any persistently futile effort, momentary lapses are entirely unavoidable. The response of the fans to the Band is always nil. In fact, the only positive response the hockey band gets from anyone is great praise and support from the team itself, through Coach Cleary. After last year's playoff upset at UNH (were you there, Mr. Scheft?), Cleary raved about "that great band," and the year before, after Harvard...
...said the chances of recovery in such a case are "virtually nil...
...setting down in wiry outline and crude, flat tones the tight lips and beaky noses of parsons, housewives and merchants. There were no art schools, let alone an academy, and the demand for big canvases of history and myth-which, across the Atlantic, gave art its public necessity-was nil. Europe was very far away...
...recent years, and for the last four months he has had only peripheral vision. He can see his wife's scarf by looking at her nose, but the center of his field of vision is a dark, impenetrable cloud. The prospects of his learning new music are nil. "I must rely entirely on my memory," he says. Fortunately that memory is photographic and still in focus...
However, Horn said the deadline for altering grading status has been strictly adhered to in the past, and that chances of the Ad Board accepting a petition to push it back are "virtually nil...