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Harvard's water polo team, now with a 14-1 win-loss record, will vie with several other New England teams for the regional championship at MIT this weekend. The Crimson, a perennial New England terror, is a heavy favorite, although Brown, who lost to Harvard by only one point two weeks ago, could...
Pattin (17-13) was given a tust inning run when Juan Bentquez and Phil Gagliano walked and Ben Ogilvie singled. The Tigers tied at in the bottom of the inning, but Boston went ahead to stay in the second on Rock Millers double and singles by Vie Cornell Bentquez and Cicil Cooper...
...contrast, in Japan, would-be journalists must take tough examinations, civil service style, in competition for prized positions with the nation's five national and 110 local newspapers. Editorial work is so much more attractive than a business career to Japanese students that some 8,000 aspirants vie each year for only 500 or so vacancies nationwide. July is exam time in Japanese journalism, and thousands are now waiting anxiously to find out if they can become trainees next spring...
Carmines' contemporary maid of Manhattan needs no Dauphin to betray her; church, state and even some of her friends vie for that role. She lives in the East Village with Ira the Junkie (Ira Siff) and Tracy (Tracy Moore), a slogan-shouting nobody. The three hail the blessings of unlicensed polyandry by singing "Now we understand the Trinity . . ." Lumbering home one night, Joan (Lee Guilliatt) meets a miniskirted doll (Essie Borden) who is-what else? -the Virgin Mary enjoying a one-day pass from Camp Paradise. The encounter makes a revolutionary of Joan, who goes to her preordained...
...heroines of my adolescence were artists, rather than adventure-seekers. I admired their creations and their professionalism rather than their personal lives, of which I often knew little beyond the myth of la vie boheme. I looked at Mary Cassatt's Impressionis paintings, I mooned over Emily Dickinson's poems, absurdly imitated Isadora Duncan's dances, and I rea a little Gertrude Stein, mostly impressed that any woman could be quite so charismatic and commanding. I respected their sensitivity without really wondering how they kept their flame going during the crises of everyday life...