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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something like an emotional equivalent of the back-to-basics movement in the schools has now swept quietly over vast sections of the American psyche. A sneaking preference for what once, generations ago, was called square has broken into the open. Certain values like stable family, satisfyingly useful hard work, competition and excellence have reappeared here and there: the moral equivalents of Bass Weejuns and button-down shirts. A cynic would say that the culture's manic quest for novelty has simply exhausted some of its adventurously kinky experiments (open marriage, bisexuality, a doctrinaire celibacy, banana smoking and roller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...tone for the meet was set in the first race, when the Crimson entered three teams and walked off with the top three places in the medley relay. The aquamen also swept the 200-yd. butterfly, with freshman Greg Eckstrom leading the way, and nabbed the top two spots in five other events...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: Aquamen Triumph, Dump Army, 77-36 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...three Harvard freshmen did not have nearly as much trouble as each won, 3-0. Laura Kaye, playing in the tough second position, swept Karen Adair, 15-13, 15-9, 15-10; Lili Pew, at number five, beat Tami Rosenberger, allowing just 20 points; and Betsy Howe, making her varsity debut, topped Lexi Turner...

Author: By Ari M. Lieman, | Title: Racquetwomen Thwart Cardinals, 5-2 | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...scout the opposition...Pris Pool, the Crimson's new assistant coach, accompanied the team to Middletown...The Crimson face Brown at Hemenway on Tuesday. This traditional rivalry is intensified by the fact that Paul Moses, former Harvard coach, now directs the Bruins...Josie Iselin, Harvard's fourth promising freshman, swept Molly Magovern, 15-4, 15-6, 15-4 in the eight (top JV) position...Harvard senior Wendy Sonnabend has missed this season's first two matches because of a knee injury incurred while playing soccer...

Author: By Ari M. Lieman, | Title: Racquetwomen Thwart Cardinals, 5-2 | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...team co-captain Marc Chapus, who clicked into warp drive and came up with a new Harvard record of 48.5 seconds, the sprinters swept the event and left the Bruin contenders cleaning the cosmic dust out of their eyes. Sprinters Bennett Midlo and Kim Stevens arrived at the tape shortly after Chapus to claim the impressive times of 50.2 and 50.3 seconds, respectively...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Thinclads Obliterate Brown in Opener | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

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