Word: hofstra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yorker who owns several plastics companies, he accumulates paintings and bronzes because "there is nothing more exciting than to have great objects of art around." He concentrates on 19th century academics, pre-Raphaelites and symbolists, because at the time he began collecting 20 years ago they cost relatively little. Hofstra-educated Pivar has steeped himself in his field since then, reading exhaustively and traveling to important auctions around the world. Says he: "To be a knowledgeable collector of 19th century painting you have to be a mythologist as well as a historian. Being a collector turns you into an aesthete...
...Robert Muller, 34, was an idealistic undergraduate at New York's Hofstra University when he enlisted in the Marines and went to Viet Nam as a lieutenant. In 1969 he was shot in the spine and left paralyzed from the waist down. The disillusioning war and shabby treatment accorded the men who fought it turned him into a crusader. As executive director of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Muller is fighting for jobs, better benefits and respect for the 3 million Americans who served in Southeast Asia. Now a lawyer, he is a moving orator when addressing Americans about...
...final decision-maker should come May 12, in Hanover, when Harvard faces a Dartmouth squad that is peaking after early-season losses to Princeton and Hofstra. Last week, Dartmouth was fourth in the N.E. rankings; but the win over Brown leaves the 7-2 Green Machine with the fewest losses of any New England team...
...goal losses to UMass and Hofstra prevented the Crimson from earning a berth in the eight-team NCAA playoffs...
...indeed it was a blow-out. Attackman Mike Faught and middie Peter Predun (five goals, two assists each) joined Martin in leading an attack that showed much more confidence executing and going to the goal than it had against Hopkins, Post and Hofstra...