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That's our thing, isn't it? Denial -- of pleasure, of all the stronger emotions. But of course they are there, and I admire the patient way you dig them out of our frozen soil. Dale Uecker flunking his algebra final his senior year and bravely tasting the glories of humiliation ("Tests and graduation don't matter because now I know . . . that the important thing is life itself") and being pulled back from the brink by good gray Mr. Dentley giving him a C ("Basically you understand the material"). David Tollefson and Agnes Hedder breaking up their marriages and running...
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...fans, I love 'em."--Bob Uecker...
LINEBACKER (2)--The position hit hardest by graduation, this could be the Achilles heel of the defense. Harvard graduated the best linebacker pair in the Ivies--Joe Azelby and Andy Nolan. As if that weren't enough, replacements Kevin Garvin, and Craig Uecker also picked up sheepskins last June. All told, Harvard loses a third of its tackles and 10 of 34 quarterback sacks. Filling the gap will be senior Dan Bennett (6-ft., 195 lbs.) and junior Brent Wilkinson (6-ft., 2-in., 220 lbs.). Teammates have been impressed with Bennett and Wilkinson, but neither has much experience. Look...
...four Mozart operas, several concerti and the Requiem. As seen through the dealer's eye of the movie camera, Salieri looks like a sullen midget next to a Mozart monument; he is Judas to Mozart's Jesus, James Earl Ray to his Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Uecker to his Babe Ruth. Explains Shaffer: "Salieri had to give way just a bit to make room for the glory and wonder of his victim's achievement...