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Dean Watson explained last night that the NIT is not included on the "white list" of events and championships deemed "in the Ivy League tradition" by the league's athletic directors. Teams may compete only in national championships or in sanctioned events like the Heptagonals and Oxford-Cambridge track meets...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Columbia Smashes Tigers For League Hoop Crown | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

...conjectures are "disease," "disseize," "defeat," and "dis-ease." I myself like to understand "chair" (which was pronounced "cheer" then), with which "disseat" makes perfect sense. Houseman too settles on "chair" but follows it up with "unseat," which is obviously not acceptable. But let me spare you this ped-antic nit-picking, if you are still with...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Only Colicos Excels In So-so 'Macbeth' | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Needless to say, people like that are missing the point. Concerts, especially those of such uncompromising selectivity of programming and meticulousness of performance as Harvard's summer series, exist not for the final approval or disapproval of nit-picking musical Eumenides but for the expanded artistic experience and possibly edification...

Author: By Robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Leon Kirchner and Chamber Ensemble | 8/1/1967 | See Source »

...Europe and indeed of the world, for decades to come." The decision was, of course, that of Britain to apply for membership in the Common Market for a second time. Four years ago the Tories applied, and were rudely vetoed by Charles de Gaulle after nine months of nit-picking negotiations in Brussels over such items as East Indian tanned hides and Australian kangaroo meat. In his speech to Parliament, Wilson made it plain that this time Britain's approach to Europe would be far different - and far more to the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Possibility of An Instant Jump | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Henry Livings, is about Valentine Brose. He lives in a boiler room. He is a nit. His wife lives in there too. She is a nut. He is funny. She is funny. So is the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Time Listings: Apr. 21, 1967 | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

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