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Surprisingly, behind Pendulum's sometimes tidy, sometimes tiresome chaos, Writer Simpson has planted one or two ideas that swing. The Groom-kirbys, on the surface, behave like any middle-class family, and after a while their absurd rituals and lunatic discourse begin to seem alarmingly close to the norm. And as they blithely beat words to a pulp in their do-it-yourself Old Bailey, they somehow suggest that one way to solve the angst-ridden question of communication among men is to kill the language in self-defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sappy? No, Absurd | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Close proximity to the hill down the River Charles from Cambridge, Boston's famed Beacon Hill, has given to Harvard another kind of sex life. It's far removed from the norm. While not evident to the outside world, it is easily recognizable to those aware of such things...

Author: By Jonathan Schell, | Title: The Real Harvard | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Paul Padlack, a member of the Harvard freshman wrestling team, won the 155 pound division in the Lawrence Open Tournament at Lawrence, Mass., Saturday. Padlack won five matches on the way to his victory, including a pair of pins and decisions over two former New England champions, Norm Salem by a 1-0 score and John Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Padlack Wins Mat Tourney | 12/17/1964 | See Source »

...haven't done much scoring under any circumstances this year and they haven't done badly nonetheless. In their last two games they scored on a pass interception to heat Princeton 7-3 and tackled Penn's punter in the end zone for a 2-0 victory. Coach Norm Shepard's charges may have trouble arranging a defense without tackles today, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injuries Decimate Varsity, JV Teams | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...Nothing got tossed out to make room for the big stories," Bernstein said. "We just increased the news hole. On the night that the Khrushchev story broke, we carried 239 columns. That's well over our norm-195-and if it wasn't a record, it was damned near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Week the Dam Broke | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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