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...appraising once-over with "you're too much the industrious Lombard--besides, you're too hairy." Next to Malnate's animality, De Sica's aristocratic Jews are the ultimate wish-fulfillments to any Hitlerian dream of the perfect Aryan. Tall and fair-haired, they appear the descendents of some Nordic race, rather than the inheritors of a religion born on the Southern shore of the Mediterrancan...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 2/16/1972 | See Source »

...week-long pre-Christmas training camp, the ski team voted sophomores Ben Steele (alpine) and Ken Willis (nordic) this year's team captains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Elects Captains for 1972; Newcomers Improve Season Outlook | 1/21/1972 | See Source »

...book he turns to a Mayan maid who is made lor him and stoutly "vouchsafes" the following: "Monja, you've been a brick." But not all of Doc's quirks are endearing. Billed as a paragon of fair play, he nevertheless tends to characterize non-Nordic types as "a low specimen of the Central American half-breed" or as "ratty, dark-skinned" people. In his books black men shuffle, gawk and sputter things like "ah never seed such muscles befo'." Even more peculiar is Doc's method of dealing with the criminals he captures. With confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Gore of Yore | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

Sparked by the return of Nordic captain Chris Ferner, the Harvard ski team climbed to a sixth place finish at the Middlebury Winter Carnival in Middlebury, Vt. last weekend...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Ski Team Moves Up at Middlebury | 3/2/1971 | See Source »

Without Ferner and Platz, the Crimson has been unable to win any significant number of points in the Nordic events. At Williams, Harvard was in sixth place after the Alpine events and the cross country, but finished last in the jumping and fell to eighth place...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Lack of Nordic Depth Threatens Ski Status | 2/24/1971 | See Source »

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