Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard entered the singles action needing to win only two matches of six to defeat Syracuse. At number six singles, Niki Rival, who missed the Dartmouth match, completely dominated Elizabeth Robinson...
Rival only lost three games to Robinson during the match, capturing a 6-1 and 6-2 decision to put the Crimson up, 4-0. She improved her singles record to 11-7 this year...
...deprived of the very thing we value." Since leisure is notoriously hard to define and harder to measure, sociologists disagree about just how much of it has disappeared. But they do agree that people feel more harried by their life-styles. "People's schedules are more ambitious," says John Robinson, who heads up the Americans' Use of Time project at the University of Maryland. "There just isn't enough time to fit in all the things one feels have to be done...
...hero of Damn Yankees was a pennant-winning natural named Shoeless Joe Hardy. The hero of Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Dreams is a farmer (Kevin Costner) who dreams of bringing Shoeless Joe Jackson back to earth for one more game. The great outfielder may have helped throw the 1919 World Series, but the farmer idolizes him and his Black Sox teammates for their innocence! So with the help of his trusting wife (Amy Madigan) and a crusty black author (James Earl Jones) who doesn't mind that all the old major-leaguers were white, he plows down...
Here's another one from the NCAA files: Reports in yesterday's Globe say that the NCAA might be investigating a "special benefit" violation involving Rumeal Robinson, the Cambridge native who iced the 1989 NCAA baketball title for the Michigan Wolverines. Louis Ford, Robinson's father, went to watch his son play in Seattle, Wash., thanks to a group of local business leaders, who funded his trip. Yeah, real serious stuff, here...