Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with this Olympian effort than ABC's commentators. All last week they continually reminded viewers that they were seeing "a sports exclusive," "a really fantastic shot," and "superb coverage." Nonetheless, it was the picture that told the story, and during the first two days it was mostly a sad tale of the young U.S. hockey team being trounced by the Czech and Swedish teams. U.S. Skater Peggy Fleming cut a fine figure on the ice, but about the only good thing the announcers could say about the U.S. hockey team came during a skirmish with a Czech player...
...Cambridge draft board doesn't have an easy time filling its monthly quotas. It's a rather sad place. The pale tan walls and the green filing cabinets lined up in careful rows look at you with a kind of quiet sterility. The wooden bench sitting outside the room, just sitting and waiting, doesn't help...
Come out ye gifted Kings and Queens and hear my sad complaint...
...Lampoon's failure is particularly sad because it leaves the absurdity of the Vietnam war virtually untouched by American humorists. Indeed, the one great exception remains the Lampoon's 1965 parody of Time magazine. What humor there is in the war is exploited by Conn Nugent in his "Personal Essay," an unlikely letter from a Leverett House senior to the Duke University Graduate School of Business Administration...
...sad commentary on the Harvard Faculty and Administration that the Crimson Board's concluding editorial exactly ten years ago--before the $82.5 million fund drive for the College had begun and before the exhaustive Faculty debates on General Education--is equally relevant today: "But if Harvard is still to offer a unique educational experience, the Administration will have to resist the temptations of supermarket education, and to attend to the House system and independent study...