Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them were a backcourt man. In Gene Dressler (5 ft. 11 in.) and junior Jeff Grate (6 ft. 1 in.), Harvard has an impressive backcourt, but there is no one up front to be a leader. When a team falls behind in a game, inexperienced players might tend to start shooting more, and lose control of the tempo of the game. An upperclassman who has been through the Ivy grind would certainly help...
...rale that goes with advancing years. Another factor is that the West Coast attracts the ambitious and restless who are inclined to react bitterly to failure. Some of the lowest suicide rates in the U.S. are in Mississippi and South Carolina, relatively static societies where even the poorest people tend to have roots and fixed status...
Dinner for 22. Julia is all for men being in the kitchen. "A man in a chef's apron is a fine sight," she exclaims. "They are marvelous. They're more daring, while women are often timid and tend to get bogged down in detail. I think one can see from history that the great creators...
...physiques have dwindled, psyches have flourished. With so much riding on every note, singers today tend to treat their voices like some strange visitor who, if not properly managed, will suddenly desert them. Birgit Nilsson lubricates her pipes with beer, Eileen Farrell quaffs warm Coca-Cola and follows it with burping exercises, Gwyneth Jones takes hot and cold showers and yawns a lot. The rage for eating raw garlic is so popular among German tenors (a cashew-sized sliver two hours before performing is supposed to strengthen the heart) that one indignant Italian soprano recently went onstage with an aerosol...
...dust-jacket come-on. The rest of the come-on is Mai Zetterling, a talented and glamorous 41-year-old Swedish actress who wrote the book and directed the film. A screening of it was banned for public exhibition at the Venice Film Festival by the Italians, who tend to love their mothers-though not quite in the way the central character of Night Games loves his mother. It may well have shocked them (TIME, Sept...