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...week here attempting to revitalize that spirit, Ned Coll isn't big on Harvard. In a recent organizational meeting against the draft, as Harvard students quibbled over semantics, motioning this, seconding that, Coll began his remarks, "I used to think Harvard was full of shit. Now I can smell it." It is hard to disagree when Harvard activism is sparked by self-interest, a yearning for the cliquishness of a popular cause, or a self-righteous condemnation of injustices thousands of miles away...

Author: By Paul Micou, | Title: Rekindling Concern | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...punch. Scarcely an edition goes by without Loeb's patting Reagan on the back while he attacks Kennedy and Bush. Contending in a frontpage article that ex-CIA agents are working in Bush's campaign, Loeb charged that Bush's victory in Iowa had "all the smell of a CIA covert operation." Loeb also played up a charge rehashed in the Los Angeles Times that Bush had not properly reported a contribution of $106,000 from a Nixon slush fund for his unsuccessful Senate campaign in Texas in 1970. DIRTY, DIRTY, DIRTY headlined the Union Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In New Hampshire, They're Off! | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...smell the moon in your perfume...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Jackrabbit Slick | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

Next Tuesday's match with the Big Green should give the racquetmen little trouble, and Yale has already lost to Harvard victims Penn and Princeton. The undefeated (6-0) Crimson can almost smell a championship...

Author: By Ari M. Leiman, | Title: Racquetmen Smash MIT, Win 9-0, Remain Unbeaten | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

...descriptions of Erks' dangerous drive over the mountains and across deserts. There are intensely perceived set pieces: a dog battling a possum; a woman reassembling a carburetor with Zen-like grace; a Snopesian funeral in a field littered with rusty tractor parts and dominated by the sight and smell of a huge pig roasting on a spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Driver | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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