Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KNOW THAT: Intramural co-ordinator Floyd Wilson reports that there will be no house ice hockey this year due to the Watson Rink renovation. Wilson says house athletic secretaries are mulling over a proposal to follow Yale and eliminate dangerous kickoff return plays in House tackle football...Freshman Paula Newnham was one of England's top finishers in the 800-meter run at the recent British Commonwealth games. No wonder coach Pappy Hunt is smiling. Paula is a native of Oxford...Boston media-types are swamping Harvard SID Joe Bertagna with enquiries about freshman quarterback Ron Cuccia...
Sadat and Begin also agreed to negotiate a peace treaty within the next three months, providing for Israeli military withdrawl from the Sinai, full exercise of Egyptian sovereignty there, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel. The Sinai provisions also include the return of Sinai airfields to Egyptian civilian control...
...barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation." Fighting was supposed to be conducted according to the chivalric code, but actually it was a business, entered into for the purposes of seizing loot, capturing prisoners to ransom, securing bribes in return for mercy shown, and, it would seem, as an excuse to extract additional taxes. Yet the levying mechanism of the emerging nation-state was still not refined. In Paris, for example, heralds on horseback would announce yet another impost, then gallop for their lives. Violent revolts by commoners troubled both France...
Piranesi hence resolved to convey his ideas in pictures. He published a volume of twelve visionary buildings that dramatized his spaces by the diagonal perspectives of stage design. But his work created no stir, and he was forced to return to Venice, where the presiding geniuses at the time were Tiepolo, Canaletto and Guardi. The influence of Tiepolo freed Piranesi's line from cramped meticulousness favored by architectural engravers of the day. The result can be clearly seen in the Morgan show, where sketches for decorative panels and figure studies echo Tiepolo's and Guardi's free...
...hacks; I was a hack trying to become an artist. All the while [at Esquire] I was fishing around for a new way to write about films. I had a kind of prejudice about being a critic even while I was one." Accordingly, he does not plan to return to journalism in the near future...