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Reality was unkind to Harvard last year. The cagers went 8-21, playing the roughest schedule a Harvard team has ever played...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers to Debut Tonight | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

Captain Craig Beling tested Jeff Blatnick, Springfield's standout in the unlimited class his roughest match this year, but Beling expended too much energy escaping a Greco-Roman throw in the first period and Blatnick capitulated, pinning Beling...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Grapplers Get Dumped Thrice In Season's Longest Weekend | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...F.I.S.T., but neither is it a complete fail ure. At times Paradise Alley looks like a catastrophe: it is often crudely made, badly acted and unwittingly ridiculous. Yet the film doesn't chase the audience out of the theater, as F.I.S.T. did. Just when the going gets roughest, this crazy movie springs into idiosyncratic, if fleeting life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Times | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Through mid-March," says Regoczy, "we work maybe four to five hours a day on the ice. The November to January period is the hardest physical time, when we develop the routine. But with the competition, we get the roughest mental time...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Regoczy and Sallay: A Special Blend of Talent | 11/17/1977 | See Source »

...Biographer Andrew Field, Nabokov: His Life in Part must seem like the roughest final exam of his academic life. Field, 39, is a New Jersey-born scholar who now teaches literature at Griffith University in Australia. He has had a working and personal relationship with his subject since the publication of Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967), Field's excellent study of the Russian American's novels and stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Casting the First Shadow | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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