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...dump, Squaw Island. We used to have to run laps around the giant sewage treatment tanks, and sometimes we'd even run through the dump. The air was rotten on the leeward side of the island, but on the river side, the winds off the water would clear the stink out of our nostrils. In the spring, we'd pray that the ice would break up so we wouldn't have to run those ten-mile races through the putrid...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Unruly Comments | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

...leave a country.") Even Shorty's interior dialogues with his own bowels are put to comic use, along with the fact that old people are often mean and silly, and fall down easily. Amis pursues his doddering prey with tiny twists of plot: through the use of stink bombs, squirt guns and even a heated orange-juice can of urine, Bernard tries to turn the group against Zeyer's dreadful, sad old dog, Mr. Pastry, and to convince Shorty that his bladder is ruined. A Christmas dinner scene, with bored and horrified younger generations present, is a comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Geriatricks | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...first Harvard score should be met with a blah remark: "Nice play. But there's a lot of time left, you know." The first Crimson mistake demands a snide comment: "They stink. They always stink. Another losing season." The key is to deny your Harvard allegiances...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 9/27/1974 | See Source »

...BARTLETT'S FAMOUS QUOTATION PLAQUE will reside in Durham, N.H. this year in the home of New Hampshire mentor Ted Conner. Conner takes it for his statement to plate umpire Bill McDonald during the NCAA District I playoffs, "You Stink...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: A Salute to the '74 Baseball Season | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...short there is an awful stink in Denmark, and Shakespearean scholars take heed. Little Transylvania College in Lexington, Ky. avoided the temptation of using Vampires and instead went with the prosaic Pioneers. And their color? Harvard Crimson...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Does a Rose Smell as Sweet? Team Nicknames Are No Clue | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

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