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...great effort by my girls." Perla Hewes, Radcliffe tennis coach, said. "With a rag tag team we only lost 3-2. I think we put up a magnificent effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Bows to Princeton After Net Loss at Barnard | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...they [antiwar demonstrators] are clean ... I have no objection to them. But if they look like they just came out of a rag bag, well I wonder. But even if they're not clean, they have thoughts and feelings, and I would as soon take their word about something as anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: To Pick a Jury of Twelve | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...cogitus interruptus." Only occasionally is there a political edge to their talk. Toward the end of the novel, the actor says without much conviction that he is going to join the guerrillas in the mountains. The announcement causes little stir, and is swept away by the barman's rag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dementia Peacocks | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...clown is that clowns are more apt to follow than to lead.) At times, his tone becomes overly solicitous--like a travel agent describing the most suitable road to heaven--but mostly he's the kind of good time Charley you'd be happy to include in any rag-tag gang. As Judas, Lloyd Bremseth has less to do; Godspell being as nonlinear as it is, he is more Christ's alter-ego than he is Christ's adversary...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Godspell | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Until 1960, when a few artists began to move into its lofts, SoHo was entirely given to light industry -twine manufacturers, nut-and-bolt shops, metal platers, rag wholesalers, lumberyards and dealers in new and used cardboard boxes. The floor rent was low; ten years ago, 3,500 sq. ft. cost $75 a month. But because SoHo was strictly zoned for light industry, nobody could legally live there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Studios | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

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