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...with a 12-13 overall record with absolutely no chance to make the ECAC playoffs which start next week. As for the final melees, who started them doesn't matter, what does is that those violent outbursts disgraced an otherwise prestigious tournament and doled out an excess amount of shame that will be both schools' to bear. Unfortunately, Boston University will have the playoffs to get over it, Harvard won't. An unmerciful season has all but mercifully closed...
...play, and not a very good one, either. If Mamet meant to sketch the mean materialism inspired among the lower fringes of a capitalist society, he could have succeeded. But his play stretches for some deeper meaning, and in reaching for that goal topples over, incomplete. It's a shame to waste three fine performances on such a strange play. But the general strength of the production, if not of the play itself, is encouraging, and it is good to see an energetic young professional company set up shop in Cambridge...
...Shame on you, TIME, for getting involved with the witless controversy over Randy Newman's hit, Short People [Jan. 30]. My initial impression of the song remains unchanged by all this brouhaha: it's a funny song about prejudice of any sort...
...poems. They will never be Marvells or undo Donne?but they are trying. Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse to a computer that produced these near-erotic lines...
...shame of Araby," protested Express Columnist Jean Rook. "At a stroke which sliced off a man's head in a howling market place the Arabs have put themselves back a thousand and one years in the eyes of the startled, revolted world." Later, the Express located a German-born woman in London who had been a governess to the Saudi royal family. The newspaper ran her narrative under the rubric "the real story by the woman who knew the secrets in the heart of the tragic princess...