Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's insurance goal came in the waning minutes of the second period when Bobby Havern passed back to the far-side point, Kevin Hampe. The sophomore defenseman skated in and snapped a wrist shot into the upper right corner for the first goal of his varsity career...
...dull first period, but Harvard jumped to a quick goal at 1:29 of the second to up their lead to 2-0. Captain Tommy Paul dug the puck out from behind the cage and hit Larry Desmond standing 15 feet out, and Desmond shoveled a backhander into the upper right hand corner of the Brown net. Desmond moved up from third line to Paul's line during the St. Louis tourney and his play night will probably keep him there for the Cornell game...
...under a scarlet parachute, blowing ecstatic kisses to the crowd below, before landing in the arms of John Harvard. (Or is it John Dunlop? At any rate this large grey figure lounging outside University Hall.) One week later the Yard witnesses a slightly less affectionate scene as FELICIA BERNSTEIN (upper left, with Mace) and PRESIDENT BOK (spitting) engage in a kicking, clawing dogfight over whether her announced cocktail party in honor of the H-R Gay Alliance will steal the thunder from his previously planned touch football game with the group. John Dunlop, called back to arbitrate, decides in favor...
...panel: at top, the marriage of Joachim and Anne; below, the priests of the temple refusing Anne and Joachim's offering. Right panel: above, the meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate; below, the commissioning of Mary as a serving maiden in the temple. In the upper portion of the center panel, angels lament above Anne's deathbed as Joachim mourns in a chair near by. Below, the newborn Christ in the arms of Mary, while servants bring swaddling linen...
Books for older children are also a problem. Many are still written by English authors whose upper-class vocabulary, easy for a literate nine-year-old in Britain, is at a level sometimes not reached by American children until they are older. As a result, all that wholesome British chatter about ripping adventures during the long hols seems, well, childish-and alien corn to boot. To provide up-to-date reading, American juvenile writers have for some years been drearily confronting such Now subjects as sex, violence and drugs...