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...orderliness in the pages of the Register and the abstract, highly distilled information it provides give it a simplicity that is its greatest flaw. And yet there are hints that beneath the Freshman Register's tranquil, even complacent surface lies a conception of Harvard that is neither simple nor static. It is possible to spend hours staring at tiny representations of people one knows--representations that already belong to the past, photographs, concentrations, sometimes even names hopelessly out of date. What blasted hopes are hinted at by the obsolete ambitions expressed here to major in such fields as Law, Natural...
...Italian prints span styles from the ex-Futurist Carlo Carra's surprisingly static "The Acrobats," to the Surrealis precursor Giorgio de Chirico, who by 1921 had also reverted to a more academic style. De Chirico had switched from his earlier eerie, suspended space and stifled-emotion realism to a less exciting neoclassicism...
...device of these four divided selves is partly responsible. With several Hemingways at once, all at different ages, the date of the play has to be vaguely late forties. Four characters is okay; four different decades would he too much. So this grand tournament of writers is static--which is unconvincing, unless Hemingway compared himself to many other writers, despite his own distinctive style, and unless his source of approval was no more specific than the general acclaim of the bestseller lists...
...whole, the agreement is a faithful reflection of the current state of détente -and as such it is deliberately, and at times even infuriatingly vague. The Soviets see it as a mirror of the past, a static definition of their zone of control and influence. But for Western Europe as well as such Communist nations as Rumania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary, it is a dynamic document, a charter for continuing and expanding contacts between West and East. The provisions for a 1977 follow-up are, according to one Rumanian diplomat, "a lifeline...
...eaten since they left Spartanburg nearly twelve hours ago for the outbound leg of the 420-mile, one-day road trip. Pitcher Jerry Houston and Infielder Raul Nieves are asleep, crammed into the overhead luggage racks. Centerfielder Lonnie Smith has his radio pressed against the window, searching through the static for rock music. Up front, Manager Lee Elia stares at the embers of a cigarette as he flicks it to the floor. It will be 2 a.m. before the day ends. Fourteen hours, more than seven of them on the road, for a 1-hr. 58-min. baseball game...