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...team was able to build up momentum with a string of victories in this closely contested meet. The Crimson kept the score close through early on before pulling away from Columbia in the end, winning four of the last five matches. But at the meet's outset, when Lion wrestler Dave Galdi pinned Bill Clapps in the 150-lb. weight class, the score stood at 13-7 in favor of Columbia, it seemed that Harvard might fail in a tight match for the second time in two days...
...From the outset, it was obvious that the meet, held at B.U.'s Feneuil Aquastic Center, would match Harvard's depth against a talented corps of B.U. sprinters, while Boston College, Northeastern, Tufts,and hapless Brandeis floundered far behind...
...shelves with Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Even so, he knew at the start that his sense of invention could not equal his powers of observation. As Winston notes, "A symbolic fiction must be provided with the most realistic of foundations. This was an article of faith with Mann from the outset of his career." And where was he to find those foundations? In the lives of his colleagues and contemporaries, no matter how vulnerable they were; art was everything. Aschenbach, the enfeebled aesthete of Death in Venice (1913), for example, was modeled after Gustav Mahler, who was dying at the time...
...perceived as acquiescence to an atrocity. More than that, it remained possible that Moscow would see the sanctions as only a first step, which might give the Soviets pause for restraint. Said one senior U.S. diplomat: "If we had come down like a ton of bricks at the outset, we would have no options left...
...very heart of all the gloom, Trow contends, lies America's common loneliness. Around thirty years ago, new methods of alleviating that unhappiness--methods that centered on an emotional quick-fix--surfaced. From the outset their comforts were saccharine, but satisfying, palliatives. For the first time, America was united in common activities, tastes, and beliefs, though no one derived any real benefit at all. Half-mockingly, Trow pinpoints the appearance of the slogan, "I Like Ike," as the moment of change in history...