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ITHACA, N.Y.--If the Harvard men's basketball team were a musical group, its concerts would be a washout...
...civil rights marches in the '60s who nearly died when his car was run off the road by enraged rednecks. Did die, clinically, the legend has it; doctors brought him back from beyond the edge. Should have died, probably; his life since then has been a washout. This is not because of his injuries, which left a facial scar but did no other permanent damage. It is because, as Novelist Rosellen Brown sketches him, he is temperamentally unsuited to be anything but the star of a protest movement...
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...sang really well. Almost as well as we had ever sung. Afterwards, someone came up to me on the bus and said, 'You're part of the Harvard Glee Club, aren't you? If it hadn't been for your performance, the whole convention might have been a washout. You showed us what men's choral singing is all about. Thanks.' Well that was one of the nicest things that's ever happened to me. It made it really not so bad to have to wear a Glee Club tie, you know...
Despite the final score, last night's contest didn't look to be a washout during the first half. MIT hung tough in the first 16 minutes and trailed by only 5-3 at the half...