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This fiftieth anniversary Album of Drawings (an overly pretentious title for a not-at-all middle-aged collection) juxtaposes Booth, Lorenz, Saxon and Koren with Thurber, Arno, Hokinson and Irvin, along with William Steig, Charles Addams and Whitney Darrow, to chronicle a half century of the idiosyncracies of the American species. If some of the cartoons seem to depend too heavily on the actual social conditions of their time, we can rely on our memories and our knowledge of human nature to see their humor...
Saturday, Nov. 8--Before the game starts in Cambridge, enraged Tiger fans tear down the goalposts. The Crimson roars off to a three-touchdown lead anyway as Kubacki runs for 100 yards and passes for another 100 to Curry, Saxon and Winn. A desperate Princeton turns to the Statue of Liberty play for their only touchdown. Disguised as Bruce Springsteen, a Princeton student tries to damage the drum and is badly manhandled. Harvard...
Communication breaks down. Recently a kind of group solipsism has emerged, a sense that "our" insights can only be shared and understood by our members, our kind. Unless one is a Pentecostalist, an Orthodox Jew, a woman, an Anglo-Saxon, a black, a yogi, a youth, an "ethnic," one whose consciousness has been shaped in a particular way, he or she remains an idiot, in the original meaning of the word, an ignorant outsider...
...Saxon's spectacular over-the-shoulder grab at 2:38 of the second quarter pulled Harvard to within one point, and the Crimson fans then braced themselves for another chapter in Harvard's extra-point blues. After two unsuccessful kick attempts last week against Holy Cross, there was some room for improvement, but a poor centering pass led to another blocked kick and the score held...
Neal Miller shared the spotlight in the drive with Kubacki, as he busted up the middle on a quick handoff for a 40-yard gain to the Terrier 37. Kubacki then unleashed a 24-yard aerial to Saxon, who made another acrobatic grab to set the Crimson up at the 9-yard line...