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More than that, the defeat could place Muskie back into the position he was so much accustomed to in Maine politics--that of the underdog. Don Nicoll, who worked with Muskie through all of his upset victories in Maine, commented after seeing the Florida results. "One of the things people forget is that he is out of his element when he's out in front. Now it feels like 1954 all over again...
U.N.H., on the other hand, was psyched-up, playing as an underdog before a partisan crowd in its first trip to Boston Garden...
Harvard can certainly skate with B.U., as it proved in last December's 4-4 tie on B.U.'s home ice, but the Terriers' well-oiled power play (and Harvard's lack of one) are enough to make the Crimson the underdog. Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna will not be able to afford his habit of leaving fat rebounds for the opposition, and the defense will have to tighten up its recent sloppy play if Harvard is to stay with B.U. tonight...
...fourth team in the tournament, UNH, is a real underdog. The Wildcats have a high scoring line in Gordie Clark, John Gray and Guy Smith (they scored three of UNH's four goals in the Wildcats' upset over Harvard), but their three freshmen defensemen are weak. UNH upset Penn, 5-3, in the quarters to finish in the top four for the first time ever, but Cornell should have little trouble keeping them out of the finals...
...approach the rather bloodless monochromes, the complex intellectuality that produced his early Cubism. Possessing, too, a heart that bled for humanity, he turned not only to the art, but also to the politics of the avant-garde, to Communism. He painted his sympathy for the political or social underdog in shades of mournful blue and used the fragmented vision of his Cubism to illustrate the emotional chaos generated by the bombing of the small fishing-town Guernica...