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...players was extraordinary. Vigeland did not conduct (in a hand-waving sense) once through all three movements. The attention given to the continuo part by cellist David Simpson was a pleasure to hear. Far too often the bass line is simply grunted out by bored, inattentive players who can ruin the most stunning effects of soloists...
Senior Rick Eustus, a first-year varsity oarsman, put it this way: "I have nothing personal against Princeton--I just never want to lose. This is my only year on the varsity and I don't want to ruin it like that...
...work, was a shout of exultation. Miller, emerging free from the shackles of superfluous duties to society, was suddenly beset by a tremendous hunger for the sensuous life available in Paris. His book asserted the joy of the present and laid the foundation for a lifelong detachment from the ruin of a material universe, a spiritual self-sufficiency which bordered on solipsism...
...through a series of incredible third-period collapses, and a general malaise that many at New Haven, including one former Yale starter, attribute to dissatisfaction with coach Dick Gagliardi, Yale's season has degenerated into ruin, as it usually does by this time. The Eli record is 9-13, and the squad has lost five straight games...
...proposals themselves are reasonable enough. The question is whether they come too late to save the two Irelands from what Scholar-Diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien describes as the threat of "a common ruin, a sort of unity in the grave." The prospects are not encouraging. Even during a week of what these days is relative calm in Ulster, eight men were killed, 42 were injured and 28 bombs exploded...