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With solid pitching, robust hitting of late, and the homefield advantage this weekend, the future looked bright for the Harvard nine until captain and leading hitter Charlie Santos-Buch broke his hand in a Greater Boston League victory over Brandeis last Tuesday...
...least part of Japan's robust glow comes not so much from genuine growth as from enormous and potentially inflationary deficit spending, which last year totaled 40% of the government's budget. The deficits were designed to lift domestic demand for Japanese products as the slowing world economy and increasing protectionist sentiments abroad began to cut into exports. In 1980 real growth is expected to slide from a current annual rate of 6.3% to 4.8%, and inflation to rise from 4.5% to at least...
This season has proved a totally different story. After ten games, the former easy out led the team with a robust .357 mark--ten hits in 28 at bats...
...curator. Art Critic April Kingsley, lists a number of "African" traits she detects in the work: "A bold physicality, rhythmical vitality and textural richness, as well as a tendency to use linear, geometric imagery and high-energy color. The work is active, not withdrawn, robust not tentative." These are also the marks of much European and nonblack American art, and this points to the difficulty of locating the work in an African matrix...
...when she interviewed him in Zurich, an early stop in Solzhenitsyn's exile. Recalls Blake: "He was unexpectedly approachable, despite the fact that he was agonized by the ordeal of his expulsion." Invited to revisit the author at his home in Cavendish, Vt., Blake found him "more robust, infinitely more at ease, though he remains profoundly attached to his homeland. Even the 50-acre property on which he spends his days has the distinctive wild look of his beloved Russia...