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...Crimson had lost three straight Eastern League meets to sink into the lower reaches of, the second division, but Saturday's win boosted Harvard's record to 2-3, considerably better than...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers Crush Cornell, 70-43, To Boost League Record to 2-3 | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...things are important only in relation to one another, and meaningful only as they are singled out and consequently allocated significance; that it isn't just S. Schwartz, or S. Schwartz-as-opposed-to-David's girlfriend, it's S. Schwartz and the man who came to fix the sink last month and an empty Kleenex box and the number of steps from his apartment to the 8th Avenue Subway. A movie-any form, any method of singling out and preserving pieces of life short of, say, the encyclopedic chapters of Ulysses, or Rabelais' catalogues-can only destroy by choosing...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The Dull and the Zippy David Holzman's Diary at Lowell Dining Hall, 8 p.m. Saturday and Dunster Dining Hall, 8 p.m. Sunday | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

...this afternoon on the Hemenway courts, Harvard will easily defeat Dartmouth for the thirteenth consecutive year, probably by a 9-0 margin, and the Big Green will sink back into the Ivy cellar and look forward to a Feb, 20 match with Cornell...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Racquetmen Are Heavily Favored Over Indians Despite Exam Break | 2/10/1971 | See Source »

...three clasp hands-a superficial closeness, each alone with her memories, each having said little and communicated nothing. It is not so much Beckett's words as his silences that count; and Kim knows beautifully just how long a silence can last before the audience gets restless. The words sink in: they do not link in a conversation but are tentacles thrown blindly out into the dark...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Homage to Beckett Theatre | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...30?the vast majority ?neither the type of prison nor the length of sentence makes any significant difference. The repeater rate, in fact, is rising. Something is clearly wrong with a system that spends $1 billion a year to produce a failure record that would sink any business in a month. Consider a random sample of prisons from the worst to the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Shame of the Prisons | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

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