Word: stickmens
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...hockey buff, Harvard is a good place to play. Not only does the College have a strong program (the Crimson stickmen finished high in the NCAA's two years ago, and dominated the ECAC last year), but in Boston-Cambridge, hockey is right up there next to God, and hockey players are revered as near saints. Boston is the hottest of hockey hotbeds in the United States, and this enthusiasm extends to the college level. Harvard rarely plays to a less-than-packed Watson Rink, and the rivalries with Boston University and Cornell are unsurpassed, even in the pro ranks...
...stickmen finished the season with a disappointing 3-8 record, having won only a single victory in the Ivy League, when they downed Dartmouth in sudden death...
...third period was all Harvard, as the stickmen played their finest game. The first Harvard goal of the period was scored by Thomas at 5:58. Steve Dagdigian soon followed with a goal at 8:01 and the score was finally tied by center Dave Gauthier...
...freshman hockey team scored an impressive victory over the Indians last night in Hanover. The stickmen rolled right over Dartmouth with a final score...
...more one is expected to isolate himself amid an ever-growing mound of private possessions. The more Hailey's characters succeed in over-coming their various object fixations, the less real they become. In his attempts to bring auto-executive characters to life, Hailey is trying to turn stickmen into figures of flesh and blood. He doesn't understand that people in automobiles simply do not allow themselves the same human excesses as people in airports and people in hotels. The book doesn't ring true at moments of such attempted tenderness as the one where--during a weekend affair...