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Giles Constable, Lea Professor of Medieval History and a Radcliffe trustee, said last week that the Strauch committee will only be able to tell the trustees what alternatives they have, leaving the rest to the trustees' "hunch...
...Last Picture Show. I have a hunch that this thing is going to look like fifties slop when I go back to it. It certainly was fine when it came out, but a lot of frightening stuff has gone down since then as regards that decade, and unless a second viewing proves that Bogdanovich examines the fifties without being into-it, the reject light is going...
...desire to have representation from the Midwest, Calkins actually grew up in Newton and attended Exeter before coming to Harvard. The decision to settle in Cleveland, Calkins admits, was a calculated one. "I decided to practice law in a large representative city such as Cleveland on the hunch that in this way I could find effective and independent involvement with whatever turned out to be the action and passion of our time," he wrote in his class's 25th reunion report...
...team has uncovered many buildings and artifacts in the Turkish soil. In 1973 the expedition unearthed an impregnable fortress once admired by Alexander the Great. Diggers discovered its ten-foot thick walls by following a hunch that an inconspicuous stone might belong to the ancient structure...
...later on for the Klondike in Alaska, right? Well, I head for certain territory, the territory being that person, whoever he is. He may be interesting, may have some gold in his life. So you find the place, the prospector does, by virtue of some divining rod or some hunch. That's how I find the person. Then he, the prospector, starts digging, digging, digging deep into the earth. I don't dig so much as just start digging operations in which the person is talking--in that sense, digging, into his life. Now finally, the prospector finds...