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...held. Brian Dowling is hitting Calvin Hill with some incredible seventy-yard passes. But a Harvard upset looms. Ric Zimmerman too is connecting with long-distance bombs. I lose control, I stand, I shout for Harvard. Two rows above, my action unhinges a normally normal academic. He swings his umbrella and I almost become the first decapitation in Yale Bowl. Very funny. Still worse I can't retaliate since the guy is a full professor...
...always hard to root against your own students. Thus in a subsequent year. I want Harvard to win, but Yale quarterback Joe Massey '71 in the star of my Latin class. What to do? Needless to say after the umbrella incident I am sitting on the Harvard side again. But now a shout for Joe might provoke my beloved confreres. How about an exhortation Latina voce? Negative. Suppose John Finley is nearby. Or Glen Bowersock. Or the Pope. I fear not violence, but some Ciceronian distribe nailed to the Field House door: te in Orcum demittimus--vale Segale! No, discretion...
...mirror. Whether prostitute or dance-hall girl, she appears in triplicate with her choler and black stockings. We see her, fine, bony features straight-on and in profile, her legs bent to the right and to the left--symmetrically reposed--and openly exposed in the upper righthand corner. An umbrella in the lower right of the photo encourages further connections to Degas dancers and promenades. Like Arbus, there is not the capturing of an instant but the participation and acceptance of the photographer in the environment: the girl gases directly and unremittingly into the camera...
...along with the Hughes Tool Co. name, will be offered to the public in 5,000,000 shares of common stock for a maximum of $28 a share, or a possible total of some $140 million. The rest of Toolco's divisions will be massed under a new umbrella organization called the Summa Corp., presumably for the Latin word meaning highest. The billion-aire-in-hiding, who is reportedly living in Managua, Nicaragua, was expectably silent on his reasons for the sale. Hughes' ex-Financial Adviser Noah Dietrich speculated that "he needs cash" to shore up his Nevada...
...bitch-goddess Success and the National Weather Service's Hurricane Agnes are products of the same criminal mind, designed to foster the illusion of woman as Eve, forever volatile and treacherous. The authors therefore suggest the elimination of sexist terms. "Genkind," they think, would provide a great encompassing umbrella under which all humanity could huddle, regardless. Varda One, a radical philologist, asks for the obliteration of such repugnant pronouns as he and she, his and hers. In place she offers ve, vis and ver. "We don't go around addressing persons by their race, height or eye color...