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...Somehow, knowing that the ancient feud has been renewed with all its tradition-hoaried trappings furnishes a sense of continuity with the world that went before which is strangely comforting...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Game Returns After Three-Year Hiatus; 'Crinkly Tweeds' Fill Stadium | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...intimidating, mind-stretching rather than soul-numbing, an intellectual carnival rather than a solemn observance of eternal truths." I add--and would be surprised if my classmates did not agree--that the Harvard experience became a way of seeing, a way of thinking, a way of feeling, that would somehow touch and shape almost everything we would do thereafter...

Author: By Charles Champlin, | Title: REMEMBERING 1947: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD AND RADCLIFFE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Purists are concerned that this crossbreeding will somehow diminish the importance of the World Series. But the owners felt they needed something to bring back the fans disillusioned by the 1994 strike, and the players are genuinely excited about facing the best of the other league. Now fans in San Diego will be able to see Ken Griffey Jr. in person, just as fans in Seattle will get their first look at Hideo Nomo. Imagine what the N.B.A. would be like if Michael Jordan never came to town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER GAMES: BASEBALL MIXES IT UP | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...many Harvard students mistakenly assume the fact that having sat in the same classroom as John F. Kennedy '40 or used the same toilet as Henry A. Kissinger '50 somehow reflects on their character or means that they deserve to be revered as members of both the pantheon of Harvard heroes and America's mythical hallowed elite...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Truth to Power | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

...designed by a then unknown 21-year-old architecture student named Maya Lin, and when it was chosen in 1981, it was met by a barrage of criticism from those on the right who felt that because it didn't have bronze figures in it, it somehow dishonored the dead. It consisted of nothing but the names of the 58,000 dead, engraved on continuous black granite walls. But it has proved to be the most respected, the most socially used war memorial in America, where people come to leave flowers, kiss the names of the dead, make rubbings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO SHAPE A PAST | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

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