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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passing game, which clicked well after a shaky start, was sparked by a fine afternoon from fullback Beatrice. Coming out of the backfield and roaming the flats--left vacant by the young Columbia linebackers, who had been drawn in tight by a good Harvard rushing attack--Beatric combined 39 yards as a receiver with 29 yards on the ground. Superend Rich Horner, catching three for 75 yards, including a 36-yd. first quarter dazzler, also enjoyed a fine afternoon...
...Crimson offense then put together the first good-looking drive of the '79 season, with St. John commanding the rushing attack masterfully. Working to set up the young Columbia linebackers for the passing game that was to come later, Restic kept his team pounding the middle, consistently sending Connors, Al Altieri and Hollingsworth in the footsteps of the Harvard guards. A steady running diet, highlighted by Connors' jigs and jukes en route to a 49-yd. half on ten carries, took Harvard down to the Columbia...
This empathy graces all her writing. She is especially effective in describing the dispossessed, social outcasts or loners whose frustrated dreams fueled the violence and anger of the '60's. In "Notes Toward a Dreampolitik," she focuses on bikers and a young girl who wants to be a movie star. The bikers' childish excesses outrage her, yet she captures their alienation and compares it with the futile dreams of an aspiring star who desperately wants to be known...
...describes a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, a group of stolid conventional young burghers who are genuinely puzzled by the furor around them. Why don't students wat a Jaycee group on campus? Why can't the girl who takes a full page ad in Daily Variety to advertise her availability as a star realize her dream? Why do bikers gangbang women, trash stores? Didion answers...
...Wildcats' speed and aggressiveness proved too much for the relatively young Crimson squad, which started three freshman who have been with the team for just one week...