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This time it was the Big Green's Justin Head, serving poetic justice by getting his noggin on a rebound of a John Milne header off the Crimson crossbar and redirecting it into the net. Head's header shattered the 2-2 deadlock and surged Dartmouth ahead with less than 20 minutes to play, merely two minutes after Harvard's Joe Bradley notched an unassisted tally to draw the Crimson even...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Head's Header Squeezes Big Green Booters Ahead | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Here is where theorists cannot help but wax poetic. Look at a middle-aged man and try to picture him as a baby--the task before string theorists is infinitely more difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: String Theorists Hunt for the `Theory of Everything' | 10/19/1990 | See Source »

...fact, it is precisely because of the limits he places on his poetic demesne that Heaney gains an almost unlimited expressive control. For instead of moving outwards, he burrows "inwards and downwards," sifting the Irish soil and Irish soul for meaning and metaphor, retraversing locales and themes until the subtlest shifts and shadings take on great meaning. He delves, too, into his own and his country's past and finds them richly veined with continuities...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Seamus Heaney's Poetry: Excavating His Irish Roots | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

...CHILDREN, MY AFRICA. South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the production at La Jolla Playhouse, near San Diego, of his harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 24, 1990 | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the La Jolla Playhouse's production, near San Diego, of this harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and of the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 10, 1990 | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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