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...Kawabata's lightness of touch, Beauty and Sadness may appear on casual reading to be rather slight. Yet it is perhaps the most elegantly constructed of Kawabata's novels. Like all of his works, it needs to be relished by the reader slowly, more like poetry than prose: associations must be given time to form, small details must be carefully absorbed. Kawabata was a master lyricist and a great writer about love; behind the misty outlines of his style one is bound to find a solid artistic core...
...study and the political situation in the medical school. The study showed that the top two social classes correlating with the top 10 per cent income group in this country (upper middle class) have made up 70-75 per cent of Harvard Medical Classes over the past 15 years. Slight shifts in class III (lower middle class) and class IV and V (working class) are overshadowed by the continuing dominance by the upper middle class...
Both teams opened the game cautiously yet the Crimson maintained a slight territorial advantage for the first half of the first period. Even though Harvard kept the puck in the Terrier end, the Crimson was unable is mount any good scoring threats on B.U. goalie Brian Durocher...
Clarkson was, to everyone's surprise, skating with Harvard, forechecking and backchecking solidly enough to disrupt the Crimson offensive attack. Clarkson even outshot Harvard by a slight margin in the first period, and only excellent saves by Brian Petrovik kept the Golden Knights off the scoreboard...
...magnificent obsession of Sachio Yamashita is to turn the gray streets and buildings of Chicago into a splendiferous explosion of color. "The whole city is my canvas," declares the slight, goateed artist, who left Japan in 1968 to join the faculty of Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. So far, with the help of small contributions from the city, the U.S. Government and the Stone Foundation, Yamashita has painted the side of an old apartment building with a picture of waves surrounding Mount Fuji, hung a thick, 165-ft.-long, rainbow-hued rope from the roof of another structure...