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...gotten to the point where the once perennial doormats of the division can knock off the supposed powerhouses...and can say that it wasn't a fluke. This year more than ever the "haves" are being beaten by the "have-nots...
Only when two close family friends appear (Joseph Gotten, Betsy Blair) does A Delicate Balance show some promise of interest. The friends seek refuge, having been driven from their home by some sudden, undefined, overwhelming fear. They become absorbed in the household for a time. Everyone gets to talk a lot about fear, death, honesty and devotion. The friends' fear eventually evaporates for reasons not made clear...
...prefer being an image with answers for everyone--even for those who didn't want to ask questions. I wondered, too, if by now he had any control over what he was doing--if maybe the whole operation, like the problems he preached about, had gotten so complex and powerful that it acquired a force of its own, and was out of his hands...
...Holyoke began its swimming season in September, but Radcliffe's season has just gotten underway. McCabe sees this as an advantage for Mt. Holyoke. "The Mt. Holyoke swimmers have peaked," she said. "Our girls will be in much better shape later in the season...
...both items were, in effect double edged. The endowment, the sum of all of Harvard's investments, showed a tiny gain: $1.7 million, or only one-eighth of one per cent of the nearly $1.4 billion total. And this gain was only gotten through an unprecedented 72 per cent increase in private giving for endowment purposes. The actual value of the University's stocks and bonds fell by 2.5 per cent...