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Harvard's junior varsity hockey team crushed an undermanned Boston College squad, 8-3, yesterday. Playing with precision that held B.C. scoreless for almost two periods, the Crimson remained undefeated with a 3-0-1 record.

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Hockey Team Encounters Improved Tigers Sextet | 12/13/1967 | See Source »

Babe directs Mayer's 31 scene opus with intelligence and precision, drawing on several different dramatic conventions. His brilliant blocking evokes the period with character groupings resembling Thomas Nast cartoons of contemporary editorial pages, and antiquated melodramatic woodcuts. Three major scenes are mimed in front of a black-and-white...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Prince Erie | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

The bizarre concreteness of this alien reality seduces us to accept the fantasy. The convincing stylistic precision restrains the unreal reality from becoming nonsense. In the next paragraph we become involved in the magician who works to dream a man and "insert him into reality" and who later learns that...

Author: By Jack Davis, | Title: Jorge Luis Borges | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

The opening program was typical of Munch's cautious adventurousness: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Debussy's La Mer and Stravinsky's recent, brief Requiem Canticles. At 76, Munch brought a remarkably youthful enthusiasm to the podium; and this, as much as anything, may explain the new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Together at Last | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Today the weather conditions will probably be the same: rainy and sloppy, the conditions that are supposed to cripple Harvard's precision short-passing attack. But there are any number of different elements.

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Possible Soccer Upset In Game With Bruins | 11/18/1967 | See Source »

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