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This spring the paper-and-pen jocks tabbed the Harvard baseball team as the squad to beat in the Greater Boston League (GBL) and the Eastern Baseball League...

Author: By Kim G. Davis, | Title: The Bitter and the Sweet Flavor Sports Seasons | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...nothing to chance last week as he schooled himself in the problems of diplomacy, defense and detente that will dominate the NATO conference. Between appointments and before dropping off to sleep at night, he pored over thick, looseleaf briefing books, scribbling questions in the margins with a felt-tipped pen, asking for more information from the National Security Council staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: A Buoyant President Heads for Europe | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

Messman William F. Bellinger, 52, of Houston: "Every spare moment I scribbled in my diary. For some reason these Cambodian guys never confiscated my pad. But one of them lifted the pen out of my pocket and asked for it. Very polite like. They never took things off you without asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Comments of a Liberated Crew | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

Clarke attacks again and again with his vile pen, but the subjects of his wit seem trivial: physical punishment in the (mostly Catholic) schools of Ireland, the poor treatment of orphans, the collusion between Irish missionaries and Irish businessmen in poor countries. But what finally comes through in reading several of these poems is a deep commitment to the people of his country and a hatred of the hypocrisies of religion as it is still practiced in Ireland today. His later poetry suffers from its topicality, and it will probably not endure the tests of time and place, but somehow...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Hot in the Smithy Of Irish Poetry | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

...only in headlines and television broadcasts and not in its victims' bodies. Such an attitude denies the reality not only of the Vietnam war, but of all human activities--for if 20 years of carnage and destruction can be consigned to oblivion with one stroke of a commentator's pen, then no history deserves to be remembered and no suffering can expect commemoration...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Introduction: Remembering Vietnam | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

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