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...lids blew off the academic pressure cooker Saturday afternoon as hundreds of rafters and sun-bathers abandoned their books to experience the 13th annual Adams House Raft Race, between the Anderson and Weeks Bridges...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Blowing Off Steam | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...thin and chilly, no living thing disturbs the silence, and the view is spectacularly disconcerting. Bresson's bleak tales (Pickpocket, The Trial of Joan of Arc, Mouchette) make high-altitude demands. Even the most adventurous viewer is The theme of L'Argent, oxygen Bresson's 13th film in a 50-year career, is both simple and brutal: capitalism is a contagious disease, and the carrier is money. Bourgeois parents reward their sons for lying about money. The surest way out of a sticky situation is bribery. Currency is as counterfeit as the system it supports. A young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spring Collection from Paris | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

What was so surprising, though, was that the vastly outmatched. Crimson squad displayed its finest lacrosse of the season while giving the nation's 13th ranked club one mighty big first-half scare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxmen: Close But Not Quite | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Reserves Ed Catchings and Eric Booker scored 18 points each as 13th-ranked NevadaLas Vegas overpowered Princeton, 68-56, last night in the opening game of the NCAA West Regional in Pullman, Wash, to set up a show-down against ninth-ranked Texas-El Paso...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Succumbs in NCAA | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

They point out that the church's attitude toward science then was not as backward as it is now sometimes perceived. As early as the 13th century, French Physicist George Bene notes, theologians like Thomas Aquinas had warned against the danger of literal interpretation of the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rehabilitating Galileo's Image | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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