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...those who have 9 a.m. classes, pull all-nighters, row House crew, or were raised on farms, and all other students with the admirable propensity of rising early and eating it hot--for all these stalwart scals the suspense began back in early July...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Please, Sir, May I Have Some More | 12/10/1977 | See Source »

...also have been misguided by the composition of the play. Gondoliers was written to have no shining stars (Gilbert created seventeen leads in a fit of pique that members of D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. had just won large pay raises.) At least on stage, lovers tend to display stalwart sincerity--such unchanging goodness making them a bit dull. operetta has not just one cooing couple but three. It does not have to be so monotonous: only Luiz and Casilda (ably played by Willy Falk and Linda Cameron) need stand out as the sincere romantic leads. Faced with the prospect...

Author: By Chris Healey, | Title: Blinded Venetians | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...publicized snub from the Kremlin leaders, who decided-after looking at his prepared text-that they could not fit him into the speaking schedule. This only burnished his sought-after image of independence. Said one diplomat in Madrid: "The Russians were booby-trapped. Carrillo came out looking like a stalwart democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Apostle Carrillo | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...Quincy House tackle football team, led by its stalwart defense which has allowed only three touchdowns all season, battered Dwight-Silliman, 13-0, to give Harvard its only victory over the Yale Colleges in Friday's intramural tackle football competition...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: House Football | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Desparately trying to beat the clock, the gallant 'Thropmen drove 87 yards to the Kirkland one-yard line. But the K-House front wall, led by the likes of tackle Tom 'Beef' DiBennedetto and fromer All-Ivy stalwart Carl Culig (now a Kirkland premed advisor), slammed the door shut as time ran out, thus preserving Kirkland's tenuous six point edge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Topples Winthrop, 12-6; Eliot Wins | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

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