Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Centennial +3: Celebration of the 103rd Summer Session. Features music, dance, drama and refreshments. All afternoon, Harvard Yard. Free. Concert: Harvard Glee Club. Winds up Centennial +3 celebration. Final appearance of F. John Adams as conductor. 7 p.m., Sanders Theater. Free...
...policy has been clearly stated: we will print any material that is not unlawful, pornographic, racist or grossly at odds with our stated editorial positions. That the new publication will not be morally repugnant should be clear to anyone who has watched the pleasantly inane goings-on in the Yard this summer, and to say that we at The Crimson do not consider the paper as serious competition would be to argue the obvious with a positively British flair for understatement. Still, the circumstances surrounding the new paper's origins deserve a bit of scrutiny...
...Kenyan (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; 192 pages; $7.95). There's no time for tea in this sardonic unraveling of Establishmentarian rottenness. The sleuth is doughty Detective-Inspector Henry Peckover, a passable published poet who can no more aspirate his aitches than preserve his skull from duggery. Relegated by Scotland Yard to a dead-end fraud investigation, he links the murder of a May fair tart to a web of political, financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties...
...yard of my family's home in Greenfield, Iowa, this summer is an extraordinary clarifier. Down the line of porches the past echoes. There is a rhubarb patch-survivor of a century of drought, blizzard and small boys-that still yields its tender shoots for pies, a singular delicacy, which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft...
...Yale--fourth and 12 with, less than 20 seconds to go--the tight end cut over the middle--the reception at the eight-yard line--the Mike Lynch field goal seconds later...