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Williams avenged an earlier setback to the Crimson as they outpointed the raquetwomen in a match laced with furious flailing and hard-nosed dueling for domination of the court.
Aside from institutional rivalry, the tournament offered a comparison of various teaching techniques. Although the contest used the "case method" pioneered at Harvard-that is, the examination and solution of specific problems like that of Publisher Ginn-several of the schools favor other systems. Chicago is known as a "theory...
Friday night, the women were unable to keep up with Central Connecticut's effective fast break and hard-nosed full court press. Despite the efforts of Radcliffe's Caryn Curry, who had 14 points and 17 rebounds for the Crimson in that game, the cagers failed to uphold a 30...
The novelist simply had a knack for the commonplace, the down and out, the ironic humanity and atonal music of destitution. He loathed the stingy, petty-bourgeois tailoring trade of his parents, but in mimicking their gab and strut, he made them sympathetic and worthwhile in spite of himself and...
Taylor's hard-nosed style did not go over well with the people making TV films, either. Says a Hollywood executive: "Producers and stars are generally individualistic. They don't respond well to corporate thinking. Taylor wasn't easy with the people out here." Taylor also irked...