Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Needless to say, proposed increases in federal funding have not gone unchallenged. Familiar arguments about the cultural elitism of public television have been dredged up. "When working-class Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left...
...tournament final, Acosta, a senior, fell to Pat Keefe of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Keefe, a former National Juniors Champion, came from behind to gain a 21-14 victory in the first game of the match--the Harvard star's first loss of the tournament...
...much-maligned Harvard breaststroking crew of Pat Jakobsen and Tom Royal also contributed its share. Jakobsen failed to place, but he dropped three seconds from his best time; and Royal surprised everyone by making the finals in the 200-yd. breaststroke...
WHILE THE ACTING ranged from the excellent to the merely competent, the orchestra was uniformly professional, playing Ravenal's score with remarkable precision. The music caught the moods and feelings of the players throughout the first act. Composed by Ravenal and arranged by her with Pat Powers and Michael Schubert, it flowed from standard pop to jazz to a wonderful Carpenters imitation in the song "Mister Ivy," a song of passionate yearning in which Patti's quest comrades. (Ravenal also demonstrates her knack for a turn of phrase when Patti describes the most meaningful experience in her life--teaching...
Princeton threatened to overtake Harvard in the track events in part because Pat Gopaul, Harvard's strongest runner, was sidelined by an injury suffered last week at the New Englands. Star Tigress Jill Pilgrim was touted to lead a Princeton win in the 880 relay; but the Harvard team of Kim Claremont, Leslie Sims, Rice and Kathy Dorsey scored an upset victory when a poorly-passed baton slowed the Princeton foursome...