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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard trounced Yale but lost to Princeton in a Big Three match played April 23rd--a result that was repeated in the Ivies...In other League action. Harvard played Dartmouth in Hanover Tuesday, putting up a brave fight but ultimately falling before the Big Green onslaught...
...coming of the cold war soured the old idealism. "Freedom that was a thing to use/ They've made a thing to save," MacLeish wrote bitterly in Brave New World (1948), "And staked it in and fenced it round/ Like a dead man's grave." An appointment to teach English at Harvard in 1949 removed the poet from the public arena. A kindly man, he found that he liked instructing the young and that they liked him. In later years, MacLeish turned toward a new questioning of fundamentals. From the ancient paradoxes of Job he created J.B., which...
...Israel's brave surrender of its oilfields, frontier towns and strategic buffer zone--as impressive as it is--has not accomplished the goals first proposed in 1977 by the late Anwar Sadat and later nurtured by Jimmy Carter. The dream of lasting peace has faded behind the smoke of gun battles and vehement declarations from various combatants that no more concessions will be made. Instead of the first giant step toward a new understanding, the completion of the Sinai agreement has ironically become an exception in a furious conflict...
...they voiced skepticism that the elections could be "clean and free" or "on the level," let alone meaningful. Surrounded by eager voters, Wooten said that the balloting "probably means more to Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig than it does to them." Seemingly unimpressed by the public's brave defiance of guerrilla threats, he added: "This voting . .. probably isn't going to be a significant chapter in El Salvadoran "history. A paragraph, perhaps, but nothing much more than that, because the real context of the country is terror." ABC balanced Wooten's words at the next opportunity...
Once the stuff of science-fiction thrillers, talking machines are quickly becoming a part of modern life. Since 1978, when Texas Instruments introduced the loquacious learning aid Speak & Spell, a brave new world of chatty machines that use computer chips to make them talk has been moving into factory, office and home. This year the market for talking computer products is expected to total $50 million, and by 1985 it could reach $300 million...