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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they're bringing on the Spartan approach," I said, "frills are passe." I really had no desire to hear another lecture on art, let alone watch Meldrim Thomson feast on clams...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...continued to watch the game. The father politely clapped after each Harvard gain. The boy sat pensive, still bewildered as to why he hadn't seen a hot dog vendor in the stands, or why the stadium clock had ticked down so fast when the opposition was threatening to score late in the half...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Take Me Out to the Ballgame | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...snapped a beer from a six pack and sat down next to us to watch the ball game, and when the press wizards saw the free drinks, several rushed over to our couch, breathing hard and sweating in the air-conditioned room. "After all," one news service reporter said, "it's only a convention, and baseball's a much better game...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

COACHES CORNER: Cross-country coach Bill McCurdy, now in his 27th year with the Harvard harriers, was surprised by his bunch of "wild and crazy guys" during morning practice at Groton. McCurdy was standing on the course, stop-watch in tow, waiting for his charges to hustle by. Instead, a van drove up through the early morning fog; and out jumped the squad, stripped naked for a sunrise Chinese fire drill. They then got back into the van and drove off, leaving McCurdy to ponder yet another season in the totally unpredictable Ivy League...Coach Billy Cleary reportedly steaming over...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Curry Eyes Giant Catch | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

...According to Bolen, TV is run by sex-crazed, alcoholic, pill-popping men whose contempt for the public is exceeded only by their contempt for each other. "Television is a monster that never stops eating," explains one of them. True enough, but W.E.B. gives viewers that rare opportunity to watch television throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Season: II | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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