Word: triumph
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Following an 8-3 Terrier triumph three Decembers ago at Walter Brown Arena O'Callahan explained the choice of Commonwealth Avenue instead of Soldiers Field Road as the site of his hockey education. "Harvard was trying to sell me on that education stuff," the then first-year defenseman from Charlestown said, "but I wasn't buying. I was looking for the best hockey around, and I guess this proves I found...
Economics, diplomacy, statecraft, teaching, autobiography, satire and book reviewing are areas on which John Kenneth Galbraith has imposed his imperious rationality (TIME cover, Feb. 16). The Triumph, his first novel, is one of his less successful impositions. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel at all; it is an awkward attempt to put a fictional frame around a critique of U.S. foreign policy, which Galbraith feels is based on an indiscriminate fear of Communism. His characters are hardly more than clothespins colored to represent bureaucratic types. His locale is Puerto Santos, a banana republic where a moderate liberal ousts...
...when he writes that the Air Force's contingency plans for Puerto Santos calls for bombing "with maximum emphasis on winning the hearts and minds of the people." Much of the novel bears this slightly self-satisfied straining for effect. As a glimpse of Foggy Bottom, The Triumph has its uses; but its tone begins to grate under the suspicion that the author is enjoying himself more than his performance justifies...
Harvard's undefeated tennis team scored an impressive 6-3 triumph over Army Wednesday in preparation for its crucial home opener against Penn, tomorrow...
Parrot's performance was the icing on the cake. The hockey ace returned from his honeymoon just in time to make the trip to West Point. Completely untested this season, Parrot responded with a 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 triumph at number four singles...