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...Last Saturday we were sort of hammering away," Benton said yesterday, "and in this race we were a lot smoother...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Radcliffe Lights Cruise to Victory on the Charles | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Coming to Harvard: "In retrospect, I'm very happy with my decision. The first year was a tough feeling our process for both players and coaches. It also took some time for my family to get adjusted to Cambridge, but I think next season things will go much smoother." family to get adjusted to Cambridge, but I think next season things will go much smoother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank McLaughlin Speaks His Piece | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

Many people express the view that this new psychobabble is a constructive retreat from obfuscating clinical terms but, if so, it is only a retreat into a sweet banality, a sort of syrup poured over conversations in order to make them go down smoother...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Psychic Profiteering | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

...competition that attracted me the most," Treacy said yesterday. "The pace is faster here, although the courses tend to be a bit smoother," he added, gazing down at the close-cropped turf of the Franklin Park golf course, where the race had just taken place. "Over there we have to run through farmyards." And this man has run in New York's Van Cortlandt Park...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: The Green Machine | 9/28/1977 | See Source »

Still, Tyler is a natural storyteller, and the standard that she has set is so high that even her secondary works are compelling. The uninitiated might prefer a smoother introduction to the Tyler style, starting with Celestial Navigation (1974), the prismatic story of an artist with agoraphobia, or Searching for Caleb (1975), a Baltimore family's hunt for a long-missing relative. Most of her books will be available in paperback editions this year. For the impatient, her short stories irregularly appear in magazines (The New Yorker, Redbook, McCall's). Like such writers as John Cheever and Edna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wilderness Course | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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