Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's Up, Tiger Lily? Woody Allen, as televiewers know, is an anonymous little giggle merchant who looks like a slight defect in the wallpaper pattern and makes funnies that are so far out they sink before the slow boats get there. One day, for instance, he appeared in public leading his pet ant on a leash. On other occasions he wondered evilly if Memorial Day poppies contain opium, tsked sympathetically about a resolutely modern painter who cut off his ear with an electric razor, revealed regretfully that he once owned a silver mine but it tarnished...
Actually this is a slight increase over last year, when only 45 per cent of the eligible freshmen took advantage of the program. But in past years the rate of acceptances was much higher--usually between 75 and 100 per cent. Further more, this year's percentage increase is not a real one. Ninety-eight students accepted advanced standing this year and almost the same number--97--accepted it last year; but only 186 students were eligible for the program this year; last year 210 qualified...
...bookies are making Harvard 11-point favorites to win its Ivy opener, even after Columbia's showing against Princeton last week. Harvard holds a slight edge, but those kinds of odds are extreme...
...frail as ever, answering cheers at a concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich received another gift too: the Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Best of all was the successful first Moscow performance of his new piece, Cello Concerto No. 2, conducted by a similarly slight, bespectacled musician: Dmitri's 28-year-old son Maxim...
After Coburn and Ennis, Brown has a strong secondary -- a bunch that could put away the Crimson much as Providence and Northeastern did. Captain Jim Wich, a slight 115-pounder, and junior George Bowman will give Harvard's middle group a real tussle...