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PENNSYLVANIA (8th in the country)--Harvard's opponent today is 4-1, its only loss by one goal to Hofstra, and has already won its Ivy League opener, stomping Yale, 13-8. The Red and Blue return a fine middie in Mike Page, and an All-Ivy attackman in Pete Hollis, but must replace Mark Avart, the best goalie in the league last year. Looking forward to the Penn game, Scalise said yesterday, "There's one really good thing about a lot of our games this year, and the Penn game is one of them--going into the game...
...precisely then that Kubrick's memory bank, well stocked with odd details, comes into play. "Once, when he was really stymied, he began to search through a book of 1 8th century art reproductions," recalls O'Neal...
...honor," "comradeship," "red/Sweet wine of youth" (meaning blood), was impotent to describe the massacre of a generation. Trench warfare was all the more incomprehensible because those who were in it had inherited a tradition of war as sport. Indeed, at the Somme attack, an officer named Nevill, of the 8th East Surreys, signaled the advance by kicking a football toward the German lines. He was killed at once, but other officers kept dribbling their footballs across no man's land, earning a poetic encomium titled "The Game...
Some 7,000 foreigners, mostly Americans and French, have moved to the ancient 8th Century port city of Stavanger since it became the center of Norway's oil industry. Housing is in short supply, and high-rise apartment buildings are going up to accommodate a metropolitan population growing at 2% to 3% a year; it now stands at 150,000. Wages are high-for some skills twice those in the U.S.-but so are prices. Scotch costs $3.50 a shot, discouraging noisy sprees by roustabouts and divers and keeping Stavanger almost as quiet and staid as ever. Because...
...Islamic art is overwhelmingly abstract and, to a Western eye, puzzlingly so. This is partly due to the circumstance that, illiterate in Arabic, a Westerner cannot decipher the inscriptions or savor the interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the writing on an 8th century Koran page: the angular Kufic script done in a swordsman's strokes, decisive and muscular; the rich gold foliations round the white chapter heading; the placement of red dots, fit to make Mondriaan despair. Nevertheless, it is frustrating not to be able to read the page...