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Want to get in on the action this winter? How about stepping into 14 Plympton st. and finding out the inside scoop on Harvard sports from those who have been there and know it best...
...those who attempt this transit from civilization back to the primeval usually find that they cannot get there from here. That is the upshot of Author Elizabeth Arthur's first book, and it is not exactly startling news. But Island Sojourn offers something much more durable than a scoop; the book is a graceful meditation on survival, both in a harsh external landscape and in the scarier terrain of the self...
...American Impressionism," which runs at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art until Aug. 31, is in many ways an excellent summer show: refreshing and nostalgic by turns, more amenable than audacious, and most of it no more problematic than a scoop of lemon sherbet on a hot day. It consists of 133 works. Some, like Mary Cassatt's delicately unsettled, Jamesian glimpse of social manners, A Cup of Tea, 1880, are of memorable quality. But, in general, the level wobbles. The fault is not in the selection: Art Historian William Gerdts, who organized the show (first seen last...
...most often mentioned alternatives to Carter and Kennedy were Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie. One Senator, a well-known backer of Carter, reported "a movement building for Fritz Mondale in the Senate." There was also some talk of drafting Washington Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson to give the ticket conservative balance. Of the choices, Muskie might be the most attractive because he has broad appeal and would not have to support the Carter Administration on the campaign trail-an unenviable problem that would confront Mondale...
...uncommon in the grass-green and asphalt-black world of suburbia. They romp cheerily among the trees and mopeds, chattering about Betamaxes and analysts. Often it's so hard to distinguish one from another amid the swirl of LaCoste and Adidas, that concerned parents just scoop up a convenient horde at sunset, hoping to extract their own offspring by dinner time...