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...senior year. Then he had been in the newspapers weekly as Captain and Most Valuable Player of what was called by many "The Best Damn Football Team in Nether Providence History." The Bulldogs went undefeated that year, methodically demolishing most opponents by 40 or 50 points in dull games. One sportswriter wrote that it was not the talent of any one or two or ten individuals that made NPHS the scourge of Philadelphia and Delaware so much as it was the inspired comradery. In retrospect, talent probably had a lot more to do with it, but at the time...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: An Athlete Dies Old | 7/31/1973 | See Source »

...repeated expression of "deep appreciation" speaks of something other than ritual, it may indicate that A.C. has satisfied a profound need for self-renewal. One alumni officer may have explained this feeling when he remarked that alumni are held to be dull, boring, finished. By giving them for a short time the intellectual challenge they faced in undergraduate days, A.C. may have revived some self-esteem...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: From Nostalgia to Diploma: The Alumni College | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...characters of the story, though," she added, "are very dull and basically uninteresting. Starting with Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 9, 1973 | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...Kennedys", and the results are fascinating and controversial. According to the filmmakers, the footage was edited with no bias in mind, and it has been the reviewer's experience that the program brings out the worst in the viewer rather than in the subjects. Most of the episodes are dull when viewed separately, but the cumulative effects are devastating. This is a second chance to catch a truly experimental work, for what that is worth, but if you hated it the first time, miss it. Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

Lover or artist? Neither or both? In the end, Bradley Pearson's designation scarcely matters, for The Black Prince is really the story of all souls who traffic with their demons in order to transcend, sometimes at a terrible risk, the meanness, the dull ness, the lower depths of being human. Blessed are those who live to tell about it, pre-eminently Iris Murdoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Minuet | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

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