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With a few minutes remaining in the drowning, the p.a. announced a "post-game Slavic concert" in the Cornell stands. Sure enough, while the Harvard band ran for the warmth and security of the Band room, Cornell, in their marine trench coats, stood on the fifty-yard line and began a rendition of Sibelius 'Finlandia' in the middle of the downpour. I don't know what they played next, and neither did the rest of the Cambridge crowd which dashed for Harvard Square...
...more realistic self-portrait. With some bitterness, his alter ego Frazier addresses Burris: "You think I'm conceited, aggressive, tactless, selfish. You're convinced that I'm completely insensitive to my effect upon others, except when the effect is calculated. You can't see in me any personal warmth. You're sure that I'm one who couldn't possibly be a genuine member of any community . . . Shall we say that as a person I'm a complete failure and have done with...
...past works, it is in its relative compassion. Not that Dame Ivy went soft. But she endowed Hermia, a powerful woman, with both a healthy outlook and a promising future. In a way, like Eliza, she was surrendering some of her sovereignty over her people, and a little welcome warmth came...
...visit to China by a group of 15 graduate students from the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars-all Americans, and all characteristic of the growing body of U.S. scholars who are strongly sympathetic to the Maoist experiment in China (see EDUCATION). Chou was at his best, showing genuine private warmth toward the students, but public firmness bordering on hostility to their government. For the benefit of the world at large, Chou turned on the chill. He reeled off China's basic positions: that its sovereignty over Taiwan must be recognized, that the U.S. treaty with the Nationalists is "illegal...
...rigging sculptures within a few years. Besides his will power, the young artists also admired his early, committed opposition to the Viet Nam War. Thus in 1966 he designed and helped construct the Artists' Tower of Protest in Los Angeles. Granted the quality of his work and the warmth of its first reception, one might have guessed that his career through the 1960s would become that of a cultural superstar...