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...knows what it has to improve upon starting February 3, and if it can, you'd still have to relish a bet on the Crimson to wreak some havoc in Lake Placid and beyond come the stretch run. A slow start can be all but forgotten as the games pile up--and the Crimson can't wait for those games to come...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C. (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's Consider C. a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material or hasn't, though creatively, or any of the folly. They simply make tedious reading "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights. "Now I ask you, I have...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...predicts. But the price could be catastrophic, as Russians should know from the World War II battle of Stalingrad: taking a city in house-to-house fighting against a determined enemy is the most harrowing task in all warfare. And even after the Russian flag finally waved over a pile of smoking rubble, the killing might not stop. A Russian army of occupation would be subject to hit-and-run raids by Chechen guerrillas holed up in the Caucasus Mountains south of the city, as czarist armies were held off for no less than 47 years in the mid-19th...
...president Rudenstine today, and he's looking very well," Rowe said. "He told me that he'd made a sizable dent in his much postponed reading pile...