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After an almost even first half--it ended with Harvard down by just six, 40.34--Abe Lemon's Longhorns pulled away easily in the first six minutes of the second stanza to take a commanding 16-point lead...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Upended in Texas, 91-68, Crimson to Face Brown In Ivy League Opener | 1/6/1981 | See Source »

...drown or is at least considering the possibility. The first stanza is cheery enough, but it really belongs to another poem. The sense of advocated surrender in the final stanza is unmistakable. Not that Reagan would be unusual in having contemplated death as a way out of adolescence, but one does not think of his early life as having been touched with "sorrow and pain." Of course, the poem might simply have been the product of a bad moment. But even a momentary touch of desperation is interesting in such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Blinking back tears behind large horn-rimmed glasses, Kathryn Koob of Jesup, Iowa, sang the third stanza of Away in a Manger. Her voice cracked and quavered. "Be near me, Lord Jesus," she sang, as she asked her nieces and nephews to join in at home. "I ask thee to stay." Wearing a yellow ribbon in her dark hair, she said a shade more firmly: "I'm feeling good and I've lost weight, for which I'm grateful." Her hostage roommate at an undisclosed location, Elizabeth Ann Swift, appeared more controlled. "Merry Christmas to the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages: She Wore A Yellow Ribbon | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...second stanza, the Huskies had turned the red light on four more times, making the total an embarrasing 8-1. Burke tallied for the Crimson with two minutes left in the game to make the final...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Michigan Tech, MSU Victorious | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...loss to Brown, the icemen came back with a furious third period rush, but just as the Bruin's Paul McCarthy kicked away 21 shots to preserve that one-goal lead, Big Green netminder Bob Gaudet single-handedly put the brakes on the Harvard attack with a superb final stanza...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Comeback Falls Short, 3-2, to Dartmouth | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

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