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Harvard, which took home the prized Victorian Coffee Urn along with the championship, edged favored Brown, 122-127 (low score wins), and eight other New England Schools for the title...
...antiself has a shadowy, ideal life of its own. It is always blessed (the antiself is the Grecian Urn of our personality) and yet it subtly matures as it runs a course parallel to our actual aging. The Hindu might think that the antiself is a premonition of the soul's next life. Perhaps. But in the last moment of this life, self and antiself may coalesce. It should be their parting duet to mutter together: "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." -By Lance Morrow
What 18-year-old would ever recover? Not Sheed; not quite, though he makes a heroic effort to reach back through the charm to the exemplary life. Clare Boothe Luce's legend, he reports, "could be studied like a Grecian urn, with her forever reaching or being reached for, depending on one's angle of vision." As for her admirers, "They were happy to celebrate her conversion, or her achievements as a Woman, or her spunky duels with F.D.R. in perpetuity. If she had gone out of existence like St. Christopher, they'd have kept...
...Usra in Al-Bireh, a combination kindergarten, secondary school, vocational training center, gift shop, museum, charity, folklore institute, and a general haven for Palestinian children that she built up with her own dogged will in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. She is called Urn Khalil by the children and staff, and she looks um?built low to the ground, unlikely to topple. She is about 60. Her voice is made for speeches; her hair tied back to promote the clear, essential face. When you tell her that she reminds you of no one so much as Golda Meir...
While thousands of Harvard students cheered lustily last weekend at the numerous Princeton-Harvard encounters here in Cambridge, one of Harvard's most outstanding and successful teams--the women's sailing squad--capped off a stellar season in relative obscurity by handily winning the Victorian Coffee Urn Regatta in the Charles River Basin...