Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's varsity skaters will try to hurdle their first obstacle on the way to the Beanpot Tournament Championship tonight when they meet Boston College in the Beanpot's semi-final round at 9 p.m. in Boston Garden...
Mean Streets. Audiences reacted violently to Mean Streets, justly so, because this brutal screeching vision of streetcorner life in Little Italy is as hard to ignore as a fire in the theater. Certaily this semi-biographical film is daring enough-Martin Scorsese toys with improvisational acting, extremely stylized directing and a dialogue built around an idiom of cliches, and so laid himself open to charges of amateurishness. But there is nothing naive about the feeling for conditioned response and social context in the characterizations here. Scorsese, Robert de Niro and others give the streets a searing energy...
...long story, and you're probably wondering what Jerry Mathers had to do with sports anyway. Well, in honor of this great televiewing find, I have decided to list entries for the first semi-annual Beaver Award, to be presented to the Harvard athletic contest that was least exciting to watch during the past semester. These will be listed in chronological order...
...general." Thousands of people are being dumped into nursing or foster homes where conditions are often deplorable. Since New York State started emptying its mental institutions of thousands of inmates six years ago, many of them "have been jammed into tiny rooms, basements, and garages and fed a semi-starvation diet of rice and chicken necks," an investigation by the Long Island newspaper Newsday revealed last week. The state has made little or no provision to ensure the former mental patients "suitable housing or supervised after-care," charged Newsday. "As a result, they are taken from the steps of mental...
Thirty-five thousand feet above Hanoi bombardiers pressed buttons and bomb-bay doors closed slowly. The first wave of B-52's arched gracefully in a semi-circle. Navigators plotted new courses, pilots fiddled with controls and the warplanes started the long haul back. They would return again and again and again, around the clock for the next two weeks, with a brief respite on Christmas Day. The Vietnamese Revolution--born four decades earlier in the dreams of a scattered group of exiles, nurtured in the mountains and jungles in the seven-year war against the French, and grown...