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...meet shapes up as a head to head duel between Harvard and Princeton, with Yale expected to finish an inconsequential third in the triangular competition at New Haven. The Tigers boast depth and teamwork and are as strong a unit as coach Bill McCurdy's harriers have faced this season...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Crimson Take on Tigers, Elis for Big Three Title | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

...believes that the primitive art was inscribed between 1800 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Thus the carvings belong "not to prehistory but to protohistory-that period of roughly 2,000 years between prehistoric times and recorded history." De Lumley's dating involved shrewd detective work in museums. The short, triangular dagger blades portrayed in many of the engravings, for instance, closely resemble artifacts already identified as products of early Bronze Age (1800 B.C.-1500 B.C.) civilizations in the Rhone Valley and Swiss lake villages. Other daggers with either oval or elongated blades, concave edges and T-shaped hilts are typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Valley of Marvels | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...course is triangular, with one turn being at one end of the starting line," Grant said yesterday. "I just went around the wrong end of the starting line and was disqualified...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: 'Cliffe Sailing Team Splits In Two Weekend Regattas | 10/4/1972 | See Source »

...National Gallery's show is that the merits of Lehmbruck's last years were in form and the failures were in expression. Isolate the head of Praying Girl, 1918, and it is unremarkable. What makes the sculpture live is the brilliantly worked-out series of triangular voids defined by the armpits, the forearms and the slender torso; the body becomes a drawing in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Haunted Man | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...Triad seems to be about a triangular love relationship in which a girl (Antoinette Sibley) breaks up an affair between two male homosexuals (Anthony Dowell and Wayne Eagling). The program reveals, however, that the boys are brothers. Fraternal love is admittedly difficult to convey these days, but in this short work MacMillan has compounded the problem by his cramped and largely uninteresting choreography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Royal Eggs | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

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