Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following Okerman and Campbell, McCurdy has high expectations for sophomore Stein Rafto, last year's freshman sensation who occasionally displaced Muller as the second-rated harrier. Rafto heads a group of six sophomores who comprise the majority of the team...
...Intriguing sense of revealed wisdom pervades Chen's conversation, partly a result of the peculiar use of language- Spoken with a heavy Chinese accent, his words usually hover on the border between the incomprehensible and the profoundly suggestive. But as with the sage-like Stein in Conrad's Lord Jim, the half finished phrases, the almost aphoristic quality of his sentences, lend a mysterious weight to all he says...
...Sanford Stein Chicago...
Other members of the group include Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics; Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government; Marc Roberts, associate professor of Economics; John D. Stein-bruner, professor of Public Policy, and Gary R. Orren, associate professor of Government...
Arafat Is Next by Lionel Black (Stein & Day; $7.95) would be a standard assassination entertainment, except that the target is a real political figure: the Palestine Liberation Organization chief. An element of bad taste seems to enter here, as well as bad literary judgment. The literary problem is that since Arafat is in fact not dead and the plot is not cast in the future, the reader knows that the assassination must fail. Frederick Forsyth managed to turn this liability into an asset in The Day of the Jackal. Black fails to do so, and the book's only...