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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scoreboard showed Dartmouth with ten points when time expired, but you would have thought it was 40 listening to Harvard coach Joe Restic after the game...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Defense's Doomsday | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

According to Restic, a poor game by the Crimson defense helped even more. "We just didn't play defense with the intensity we showed in the first few games of the season, especially in the first half. We're talking about them taking it to our unit which we thought was our strength...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Defense's Doomsday | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...future of science in general, and of astronomy in particular, has not tickled the public fancy quite the way Sagan and others thought it would. Broca's Brain constitutes an effort to revive interest. But in blundering as he does. Sagan suffocates his own cause. "Science," he writes, "is not a body of knowledge, but a way of looking at the world." Ironically, while Sagan touches dramatically on this body of knowledge, he never approaches, save in the lonely chapter on Velikovsky, that elusive point of view

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: Carl's Charisma | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...came to Harvard quite naive--I thought that given the economic and social disparities throughout the world that Harvard students would discuss those issues," not issues that are much less relevant to the world's problems, he said...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: South African Envisions Black, Independent University at Home | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...received and expressed pleasure so well, and Rand's own pleasure was directly proportionate to what he was able to give. The two of them together, he thought, were like compound turbines increasing each other's rpm reciprocally until they went through the red line and fused from the heat of a passion that exceeds human design limits...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

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