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"M.I.T. has always been a strong wrestling school but they're not as strong this season as they have been in the last couple of years." coach Lee said. "One reason for their weakness is inexperience. They've been forced to go with a lot of freshmen in their lineup...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Wrestlers Meet Engineers Tonight; Hope to Improve on 7-3 Record | 1/19/1971 | See Source »

The classic Utopians were more realistic. They knew that evil could not simply be willed (or smoked) away, that it had to be handled decisively or it would undermine human community. "All that is necessary to describe the new society is to describe a new way of life," writes Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: VOYAGE TO UTOPIA IN THE YEAR 1971 | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

The score of Superstar, in its weakness, spells out the problems of any attempt at "rock opera"; the closer "rock opera" comes to conventional opera, the more structured the form of the work has to be, and the more difficult it is effectively to employ rock music in the score...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: The Opera Jesus Christ, Superstar Decca Records | 1/14/1971 | See Source »

Walt Frazier of the New York Knickerbockers basketball team has a different problem: convincing people that he was wearing those broad-brimmed gangster hats and wide-lapel pin-stripe suits long before the movie Bonnie and Clyde came out. Chief ball hawk for the champion Knicks, Frazier says: "I dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Athlete As Peacock | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

The President's words irritated a sizable number of U.S. Senators who want to end, or at least reduce, the 25-year-old American military presence on the Continent and let Europe meet its own conventional defense needs. Opponents of this view argue that a U.S. withdrawal would set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Europe: Of Defense and D | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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