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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 18--Harvard's inconsistent, often bumbling football team staggered through three miserable periods here today before regrouping for a two touchdown passing assault in the fourth quarter to out-tussle stubborn Brown...
Lilly undermines his accomplishments, and his book, with a stubborn allegiance to an unsubstantiated theory: that mammals with brains larger than man's are more intelligent than man. Without offering any scientific documentation, he suggests that the sperm whale, whose brain is six times as big as man's, could hear a symphony once, store it in his computerlike mind and play it back to himself note by note. Says Lilly wistfully: "I would like to exchange ideas with a sperm whale." The last fellow who dared to say that was Captain Ahab...
...center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated, bipartisan majority of private citizens in America who approve our country's policy of patient, responsible, determined resistance...
...provides his own answer in his Collected Poems. Greece's only Nobel prizewinner is a deeply civilized and profoundly Greek man who draws on the whole heritage of his people, their literature, their myths and legends, their wariness born of defeat and exile, their toughness born of a stubborn struggle for survival. In his work, he shows how the present (his and theirs) was seeded in the past, how man's fate now as always reflects the unstable mixture of the unattainable and the possible...
Both groups, however, direct their petitions to the Administration as requests. The more stubborn the University is in its refusal to change, the more radical each group becomes. Middle-of-the-road radicals adopt more extreme methods in an attempt to force University compliance, and the traditionalists turn to activist politics. Of course, everybody could just give up and go back to reading for tutorial. But for many students the personal stakes are too high...