Word: placed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics treated him with amused tolerance. Recently, however, an enthusiastic Vian cult has been growing among French students, and the critics have begun to speak of L'Ecume des Jours, L'Automne à Pékin, and the play The Empire Builders, with increasing respect, giving Vian a place in the tradition of Dadaist humor, the Theater of the Absurd, and modern French poetry...
...ANNALS of rock and roll writing Paul Williams, who was spawned and bred in our very own Cambridge, Mass., holds a special place. The story is of how he dropped out of Swarthmore three years ago to single-handedly set up his own magazine of rock, Crawdaddy!, and went on to establish it briefly in all its tacky splendor as the finest underground publication of its kind...
...Saturday, Bill Murphy of Harvard had to settle for a fourth-place finish in his specialty, the three-meter dive. Murphy's rival from Dartmouth, Mike Brown, was the three-meter victor, though the Crimson star beat Brown in a dual meet two weeks...
John Munk was the only other Crimson competitor to place in two individual events. After qualifying fifth in the record time of 53:3 in the 100-yard butterfly, Munk finished tenth in the finals Saturday night. Two nights earlier. Munk netted a fourth in the 200-yard butterfly, also establishing a record...
...those gags! The political jokes ("I greatly appreciate music. You know that's one place I'm like Harry Truman--I used to play the Piano myself.") the bilingual wisecracks ("We have to quit thinking of Latin America in terms of siestas, manana, Rumba, Samba, and Cha-Cha-Cha." Cha-Cha-Cha!), the self-deprecating quips ("I'm a dropout from the Electrol College. I flunked debating...