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...TIME'S photographs of Solzhenitsyn [Feb. 11] disclose a face like those icons of old Russian saints: full of sorrow, pity and love, but beneath that a vein of iron, a burning conviction and vast inner resources. The Soviet government will exhaust itself in trying to break his spirit...
...albums are shots in the old vein-Veterans Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks with their 2000 and Thirteen-year-old man or the literate stand-up style of David Steinberg's Booga Booga. But the hottest newcomers are the "rock" comics, whose pot-and pop-flavored material is aimed directly at the under-30 funny bone...
...this vein, Sanders has obviously preferred to concentrate on getting the right five to worrying about the next team on the schedule. Smooth the rough edges rather than radically alter the game plan. But such a tactic assumes a certain amount of arrogance, even if it seems perhaps a natural law to a former Celtic. For if you don't adjust, you have to make 'em play your brand of basketball. And if there is one thing Harvard has not been able to do for 40 minutes to date, it is make their opponents play their brand, Cambridge variety...
...RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME, Doctor John. Nine in June. "I done hit the right vein, but it must have been the wrong arm." Great rhythm from this laid-back New Orleans musician. Album with same title also is a winner...
Describing the style of questioning for a committee investigator, Dash said that it called for a "studied restraint." "In a jury trial one goes for the jugular vein," he said, "in a committee room, it is important not only to be objective but to appear objective as well...