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...Harvard women's indoor track season opened with a whimper Saturday as the University of New Hampshire (UNH) clobbered the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tracksters Blitzed In Season Opener By Wildcats, 70-35 | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...poet once warned that the world would end not with a bang, but with a whimper. A similar fate awaited the final theatre column for this magazine--or so I feared. A little research proved how misinformed I was. Most of the offerings are a bit offbeat--no classic Broadway musicals this week. But the original, off-the-beaten-track nature of these shows should make them an especially welcome break from three-month--old lecture notes. And you deserve a break today, or on one of these days crammed with papers and review sessions and lab writeups. The people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Even Operas Have Ancestors ...As the Curtain Falls | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...wasted their formidable skills in playground pyrotechnics and ego-invigorating one-on-one duels. The limitations of such tactics were all too evident in the championship series: Philadelphia was whipped by the less-talented but cohesive and unselfish Portland Trail Blazers. When this season began with a 2-4 whimper, Coach Shue was dispatched and Cunningham summoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brotherly Love in Philadelphia | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...billion is "a tight budget"? Only a $60.6 billion deficit? In 1959 President Eisenhower presented our first $100 billion budget; people were outraged. Now, hardly a whimper is heard as Jimmy Carter quintuples that expenditure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...giddy evening filled with the fanfare of a collegiate basketball band and McLaughlin's refreshing sideline histrionics ended with a whimper instead of a bang...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Massachusetts Spoils Crimson Hoop Openers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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