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Trailing 5-1 in the fourth quarter, the Crimson finally got cooking in the offensive zone. Former prep school lax stars John Anderson and Fritz McLoughlin showed their displeasure with the upstart boys in blue by netting goals within a minute of each other to cut the margin...
...dazzling volume of verse called Personae (Masks) abruptly forced serious consideration of the upstart's mission: to drag poetry out of the 19th century and into the 20th. Poetry, Pound insisted, must have the virtues of good prose. "No book words, no straddled adjectives ('addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness . . . nothing you couldn't. in the stress of some emotion, actually...
...politicking that is shaping this year's New Hampshire primary, then the kind of "political" image being presented by the two upstart candidates, Reagan and Carter, is worth looking into, if only to explain what might happen at today's polls. Inconsistencies crop up even more often, it seems, than the press has been reporting, especially at the "Citizens" Press Conferences" held by Reagan and the similar "Town Meetings" held by Democratic candidates...
Right at the outset, a veteran charter fisherman, Nichol Dance (Warren Gates), threatens to kill his upstart competitor Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda). The remainder of 92 in the Shade is spent waiting for this inauspicious event to occur. Neither Dance nor Skelton pays any mind to fate or fortune, an attitude that makes for short suspense. This did not matter quite so much in Thomas McGuane's novel, which went heavy on atmosphere, but it pretty thoroughly confounds any movie adaptation, including, sad to say, the author...
Bailyn also explained how upstart Harvard figured in the "contamination of the idea of American history" at Cambridge University. Leading lights there decided not to create a chair of American History and even refused funds offered for that purpose. (The thorn in the offer was that Harvard would select the scholar to fill the chair...