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COLGATE at PRINCETON--The Tigers finally got it together last Saturday. Against Colgate today they'll probably be unraveled again. Colgate 21, Princeton 10. Last week: Three right, one wrong (.750). Season: 19 right, three wrong (.864) Season minus Harvard games: 17 right, one wrong (.944). See you around oblivion, sports...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Who's Kidding? | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

...Every milieu made its own contribution. The fashion industry bestowed the miniskirt, musicians drummed up acid rock, drugs brought their own cults etc. etc. In retrospect, these symbols elicit smiles--even laughs--of recognition from those who participated in, and watched their rises to popularity, and subsequent plummets to oblivion. Still, they deserve sober contemplation. The apolitical, self-absorbed demeanor of many members of the present generation decrees that these social signposts be regarded as fads. Such a viewpoint belittles the cumulative impact of these Sixties trademarks. They exist now only in our memories, yet, at that time...

Author: By Judy Bass, | Title: Sluggish Nonsense | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

...bury this man in oblivion once and for all, or send him to the ninth circle of the Inferno, where Dante might have reserved a niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1977 | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Senior track captain Jeff Campbell penciled in another stellar performance on his four-year resume, setting a meet record in the GBC's with a 4:04.1 mile. The fledgling--or rather, once-fledgling--women's track team barreled out of oblivion with a pair of tri-meet victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

...superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when it was obvious that B was the motivation behind C, who was so important that he could not conceivably be strong-armed into oblivion. "It was the same trouble with everyone I tried to get rid of," Raven complains. "They all kept pushing themselves back in again for seemingly ungainsayable reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Pallisers: In the Trollope Topiary | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

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