Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First the bad news. The racquetwomen lost in their bid to capture the New England team championship, falling short of champion Dartmouth by one and one half points...
Despite falling short, the squad played to Felske's expectations, as "everybody performed as well as they were supposed...
Some prefer literature to current events. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, reads "a variety of things, but at the moment I'm reading some Bulgarian short stories partly because of a paper I'm writing on fantasy and the occult." That's fine for a scholarly mood, but for light reading, Lord likes "mostly detective stories--occasionally science fiction...
...used to making public confessions of that sort," he blushed. But then he opted for a "professorial comment." "It's always seemed that the bathroom might be the ideal setting for Finnegan's Wake," he surmised. "In my experience, Finnegan's Wake is best approached in short takes rather than in long segments...
...participating in a forum of that sort," huffed Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government. And that was that. But Gregory Nagy, professor of Greek and Latin, his wife giggling in the background, spluttered, "I don't read in the bathroom. I have so many things to say...This one short-circuits me completely," he gurgled, collapsing in a fit of hysterical laughter...