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Harvard, which lost its only Ivy game at Hanover early last month, is in the most tenuous position. If the Crimson loses both games at Princeton and Penn this weekend, it must defeat Dartmouth in a return match two weeks from today and whip both the Tigers and the Quakers when they travel to Cambridge in early February, in order to have a chance at the League championship...
...General Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader of the ill-fated Biafran secession, is living in the isolated Ivory Coast bush town of Yamoussoukro. His stay in the Ivory Coast, however, is tenuous. He has already been ordered to leave the country once, for breaking the terms of sanctuary by granting a press interview, but the order was quietly suspended...
...Solar Lodge of the Ordo Temple Orientis, who drink blood, hate blacks, and religiously indulge in sado-sodo sex and magic; and the Kirke Order of Dog Blood, which means just what it says. Of the three, only the Process has been shown by Sanders to have even a tenuous connection to Manson, which is beside the point, for the incredible weirdness manifested by them in their earlier years is of the first importance...
...according to Anatole Broyard, are her public. The qualities of adolescence are welcome in an adolescent, but in an adult, adolescence is better termed irresponsibility. To whom is Anais Nin irresponsible? Her personal life does not warrant our moralizations. Is she irresponsible to her own talents? The question is tenuous, but provocative. Is she irresponsible to the personnages in this diary, most notably Gore Vidal, Edmund Wilson, and Henry Miller? It is tempting to dismiss the question of Anais Nin's responsibility or lack of it because of her inconsequence as a writer. But because she deals with people about...
...very day before. Furth's playlets approach individual resolutions only to resolutely back away. Although there is a stability in Peter Larkin's sets--the four kitchens themselves are best seen as variations on a single theme--underneath it all the answers are just as tentative and tenuous as in the crazily mobile world of Company...