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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than that among the Big Three since the two teams have taken turns dominating the Heptagonal (the Ivies plus Army and Navy) meets for the last six years. The Crimson has won the indoor title in four of the last seven years, but Army has been the victor the past two years...
...past, a few selected Harvard wrestlers have entered this tournament, but never has the entire Crimson team done so. The freshman squad will accompany the varsity making 25 in the Harvard contingent...
...Last: Praise and a Prediction Based on a Past Performance...
Wildly improbable as these goings-on may be, Novelist Stephen Jones has a gift for sweet and savage satire reminiscent of that unwholesome trio: Nikolai Gogol, Nathanael West and Samuel Beckett. His characters parody themselves in obsessive dead-end conversations, groping their way circularly past each other through muddled clouds of private thought and uncertain motive. In this first novel, his descriptions of hotels, restaurants, odd corners of small towns and the seedy people who inhabit them, haunt the mind's eye. Yet Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum...
Since then, Atkins and White have radically parted ways. The Council has relatively little prestige and influence compared to the Mayor, and in the past year it has tried to improve its position by vigorously challenging White's liberal programs, which require Council approval...