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...opening tri-meet with Providence and UMass is a case in point. When the dust cleared, Harvard finished second. The judges then found, however, that some of the Providence and UMass runners, unfamiliar with the home Harvard course, had lost their way and run an extra half-mile...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Confident Harriers Near End of Hopeful Season | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

...regarded. Mondale has a more substantial claim to the title than many of his predecessors. Only two years ago he abandoned his own presidential ambitions because, he joked, in straw votes he was running behind even "don't know." Now he has a national constituency. He was unfamiliar to most voters before the Democratic Convention. But in the debate with Dole, Mondale came across as "presidential" in bearing -if a bit wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: No. 2 Made His Points | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Seaver can be forgiven these slight excesses, however, since his purpose is to impart an enthusiasm of discovery like his own to the unfamiliar reader, not to confront him with the airy abstractions like "The Cartesian Centaur," "The Metaphysics of Choiceless Awareness," and of course, "Waiting for Beckett," so favored by critics. Seaver shunts critics aside: "The point to remember is that, with or without exegesis, Beckett is great fun." As usual, Beckett says it better: "If people have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin...

Author: By Tom Keffner, | Title: Beckett: Reclaiming the Unusable | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

...values. And my guess is that the editors of Equal Times might do well by themselves and their paper to take a few mixed-income and mixed-race CR sessions. For the new breed of feminist among us CR translates as consciousness raising and in case you're unfamiliar with it, it's spelled...

Author: By Pooh Shapiro, | Title: PULP | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...just returned from eight months in a mental hospital and is faced with the task of re-entry into society. Sensitively and compassionately--almost as if she too has been there--Guest draws Conrad as he wakes up for the first time in his old, but now somewhat unfamiliar, room and realizes that tossed out with his color prints of the Cubs, the White Sox and the Bears are his guiding principles, his beliefs, and his old reasons for getting up in the morning. The sense of identity he used to wear around so comfortably just doesn't seem...

Author: By Ruth C. Streeter, | Title: Bogeys in the Closet | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

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