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These are bleak times for Harvard undergraduates. While our friends at other colleges frolic on vacation or settle themselves in for a new term, the weeks ahead hold only anxiety and depression, as we scowl away in a gloomy series of library carrels...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Stranger Than Fiction? | 1/18/1985 | See Source »

...from women until this year, when unsinkable Benoit, 27, of Maine and Andersen-Schiess, 39, of Switzerland came to opposite conclusions in the marathon. "I was extremely comfortable the entire way. It was a very smooth, happy, training-run atmosphere," said Benoit, whose 2-hr. 24-min. 52-sec. frolic was dramatic only in light of the arthroscopic knee surgery she underwent 17 days prior to winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: What It Was About | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

There are, however, other traditions, individuals are born and substained into society, where freedom is not chiefly frolic, but rather the author, ship of the laws by which one is bound. The individual is not beyond the world but in it. It changes and he can help change it. History is considered in its dynamic, theory seen in practice, philosophy and art as activity, intervention. Intellectual creativity is not only vision but responsibility, not merely social but also intellectual responsibility...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Getting the questions right | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...order somehow is not strong enough to overpower his deep-seated insecurity and desire to be accepted by his men. By showing, with amazing intensity. Blight's torturous, sleepless nights while in Tahiti, Hopkins reveals his character's inner turmoil. Bligh realizes that by allowing his men to frolic with the native women he is losing his control on them, yet if he forces them to stay on board the ship, their anger will take physical form. Hopkins makes Blight's difficult position palpable and his confused actions almost understandable...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uninspired Remake | 5/8/1984 | See Source »

...course, there will also be plenty of time for fun and frolic in the Hawiian sun. The team will stay in a centrally located hotel on Waikiki Beach near Diamond head. Weeks cited the need to "find a place with access to public transportation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Players, Guests Will Say Aloha After Successful Midnight Lottery | 3/7/1984 | See Source »

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