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...Yale festivities include a freshmen skit which is seldom watched for more than two minutes at which point a shower of garbage--oranges, milk, eggs, bread, anything you can imagine--and a full-scale battle is waged...
...high are we now?" asked an ice mason at the end of his shift one recent afternoon. "Right around 56 ft.," replied his boss. The laborer chuckled and shook his head at the preposterous wonder of the thing. But even great architecture seldom endures forever, and the ice palace will last barely a fortnight: demolition is scheduled for next Thursday...
...course, the Clubs are self-perpetuating male social organizations and the fact of their excluding women prompts suspicion, nowadays. But, in most circles, that unfashionable behavior (the basis, I presume, for the charge of bigotry) is seldom criticized as other than anomalous so long as there is no reason to think non-members suffer serious harm. Grossman says nothing to explain the secrecy he finds objectionable. The Clubs' self-proclaimed social purpose is enough, apparently to assure him of their "hedonism" and "selfishness...
...racial quotas that Center Bill Russell once outlined with a sinister smile: "The general rule is you're allowed to play two blacks at home, three on the road and five when you're behind." Winning 19 games already this year before losing even four, the Celtics are seldom behind...
...presidential primary campaigns, high expectations can often be dangerous. The expectations have seldom been higher than last September, when the networks prepared to unveil four new weekly anthology series. The shows boasted big-name directors and writers (headed by Hollywood's ubiquitous mogul Steven Spielberg), harked back to fondly remembered series from TV's past, and promised liberation from the straitjacket of recurring characters and continuing story lines. If the anthology shows worked, it seemed, a programming revolution might be in the offing...