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...ball game started, Harvard threatened to make a runaway out of the context. Fast breaking at ease, and outrunning and outitustling the sluggish Crusaders, the Crimson jumped out to a commanding 12-point-lead which they held for most of the half...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Cagers Beat Holy Cross, 91-80 | 12/20/1972 | See Source »

...feeble. The prognosis: poor. The avant-garde has finally run out of steam, whether in Munich or Los Angeles, Paris or New York; the turnover of styles and theories that gave the 1960s their racketing ebullience (Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Op, Pop and so on) has been followed by a sluggish descent into entropy. There seems to be no escape from that spiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...Many lectures are dull because they are burdened by their traditional function of information dissemination. Yet the printing press essentially rendered the traditional transcription of a professor's words obsolete, and modern technology--such as videotapes--has escalated the obsolescence. It is ironic that university teachers have been so sluggish to acknowledge these communication channels as resources to relieve them of boring educational burdens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATIONAL REFORM | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

Cart Cullig debuted in the unlimited level looking sluggish and tired and lost to Cornell, 13-5. Harvard's Paul Dowling fell to the UMass heavyweight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Loses Early Matches To Cornell, UMass Grapplers | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...excitement and tension of the later stages of the game contrasted sharply with the initial period, which was sluggish at best. Both teams appeared nervous and conservative for much of the first 15 minutes, with Harvard looking somewhat sloppy in its own end and disorganized offensively. But the Crimson drew first blood when a Bruin defensive error, a race between Felix Adedeji breakaway goal put Harvard ahead at 7:55 of the first half...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Booters Move to Quarterfinals As Crimson Tops Brown, 3-2 | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

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