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...dogs romp ahead, Cheever acknowledges that he is more accessible, more willing to appear in public than in the past: "I began getting out more when I realized that I'm not only dependent on readers, I rely on their response." He was especially pleased by the mail he received after Falconer was published last year. "A book about a homicidal, fratricidal drug addict," he says, shaking his head. "I got perhaps two crank letters. The rest were thoughtful comments from concerned, well-informed men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inescapable Conclusions | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Columbia's Big Blue Machine racked up 505 total yards to a measly 134 for Lafayette en route to a 21-0 romp at New York's Baker Field. It was the first time the Lions had won their first two games (remember last week?) since 1951 (remember Bill Swiacki...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Penn, Columbia, Elis Triumph | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Figarocontinues to romp nightly at the Loeb. As the ads proclaim, "it's not the opera." Instead, this production is a spliced-together version of "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro," two eighteenth-century French comedies. Both were written by Beaumarchais, who was somewhat of a shady character; in addition to play-writing, he smuggled French guns to American revolutionaries. "The Marriage" was quite daring for its time, since it contained a speech by the servant Figaro that lamented and raged against the privileges of the nobility--some say it hastened the onset of the French Revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Even Operas Have Ancestors ...As the Curtain Falls | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

Todd Lundy--serving up nothing but softballs because of a pulled muscle in his side--teamed with Andy Chaikovsky to turn the number one doubles match into a 6-4, 6-2 rout, while Don Pompan and Greg Kirsch matched that feat with a 3-and-1 romp at third doubles...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Racquetmen Punish Penn, 6-3, For Sixth Victory in a Row | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...ahem, for the bad. Cornell may be the best team in any college sport this season, and the Big Red machine just set the NCAA record for consecutive wins (34) with a 16-11 romp Saturday over Johns Hopkins, the number-two squad in the nation. The Ithacans seized the NCAA crown in '76 and '77 and they return five (count 'em, five) All-Americans from last year's championship squad...

Author: By John Donley and Robert Grady, S | Title: Laxmen Face Awesome Cornell Today | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

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