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Following the Eli score, both teams struggled in vain to mount a sustained drive, as the cold weather and muddy field gave the running backs fits...
Anything, but that vain Animal...
...that Reisman and his colleagues collected crowds in Asia and Eastern Europe, where table tennis is the sport of commissars. It is smaller wonder that the pros tend to develop quirks that decorate their egos like gargoyles on a tower. Richard Bergmann, the late English titlist, once searched in vain for the perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing you must...
...many beautiful objects selected for the Radcliffe show attest amply to the "discerning eyes" of the collectors represented. But one searches in vain for evidence of the discerning mind behind the educated eye. Who are these women? What does art mean to them? Why do they collect--as an investment, out of love of art, because of avarice or noblesse oblige? All of these questions are raised by the exhibit and nowhere are they answered. The lavish and no doubt expensive catalogue merely reproduces in photographs the objects displayed in the Fogg's galleries. Why? For posterity's sake? Posterity...
After Brown's kick-off, Harvard got the ball on its own 25 yardline. Brown's defense was impregnable and the Crimson backs could not make a dent. Forced to pass on third and long yardage, O'Brien set up in the pocket and looked in vain for a open Crimson receiver...