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...local coach this week went as far as publicly stating that he would tell his quarterback to run "less effective" plays (such as a quarterback sneak) if his team ran up an early sizeable margin. What would be your reaction if either Harvard or Princeton, sitting on a comfortable lead, suddenly changed its plan of attack so that it varied from a dive left to a dive right? I'd feel robbed, denied the chance to see top notch athletic effort (even if not performance...
...empty proclamation, except that in this instance the Government assigned the problem in part to the Children's Television Workshop, those truly wonderful folks who gave us the classic show of the preschool generation, Sesame Street. On Thursday night, Oct. 21, some 145 commercial channels will carry a sneak preview of what 18 months of research, a budget of $7,000,000* and the Workshop's wonted imagination have wrought. Judging from several prescreenings, The Electric Company, the new daily half-hour reading series for 7-to 10-year-olds, is a worthy sibling of Sesame Street...
...night, a fish sandwich and half a pint of moonshine, and I was getting on," he recalls. Muddy was born McKinley Morganfield, 56 years ago. His mother died young, so his father sent him to be raised by his grandmother. "She used to say I'd sneak out and play in the mud when I was little, so she started calling me 'Muddy,' " he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce. "The kids added 'Waters.' Tt was a 'sling' [meaning slang] name, and it just stuck...
...violinist would sit in the room next door and cry, as rug, walls and violin gathered dust? How could we know that the Merit Scholar would run up and down the hallways for exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecans? How could we Know...
...there was no atom bomb then. Could you imagine the television cameras?... Which is all beside the point. Like the Class of '21, that of '71 has learned, if nothing else, that Harvard is bigger than all of us. If we can last, it will. Who knows? 2021 may sneak up on us without our even knowing it. If so, I hope my fiftieth reunion is held in a slightly more attractive building than Dunster House...