Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson proudly sports its most seasoned front line in years, with eleven years of varsity experience between seniors Kramer, Mills and D'Onofrio. But thanks to Shue's goal and two assists by sophomore Brian Enge, the back equalled the strikers in the scoring column...The Crimson's untested goalkeeping tandem of sophomores Scott Salisbury and Jamie Reilly remained untested against the Engineer's four-shot onslaught. Each made two easy saves...
...readers of Bass's stories (collected this year in The Watch) can attest, he also knows how to write; and like his oil witchery, this gift is % extravagant and natural. His new book is based on notebook jottings he kept for about three years, 1984-87, chasing a quarry that was "shy here, coy there, blatant elsewhere." His father, another petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written...
...stuff. "The world is so thirsty for oil, uses so, so much. We are down to the last thousand Cokes," he mourned. Of course, Coke got a reprieve. That seems unlikely in the case of oil, but if vast new fields are discovered, Bass and his notebook will probably be there...
...HENLEY NOTEBOOK: The Radcliffe varsity eights, considered by many to be the top boat in the country, did not compete in the national championships in order to prepare for its first trip to the Royal Henley Regatta in England...
...combining them with a fluent pen- and-wash technique to give a truthful, not just impressionistic, account of the future building. One sees his formidable skill as both a technical and a pictorial draftsman growing right through the show. "Altro diletto che Imparar non trouo," he scribbled in his notebook in Rome in 1614: "I find no other pleasure than learning." That pleasure stayed with him throughout his life and is almost palpable in the drawings he left behind...