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...PROBABLY NOT FAIR to knock other people's marriages. Yoko Ono helped John Lennon to find himself. John is helping Yoko to find herself, too. But in finding themselves, either John or Yoko should have realized that Yoko can't sing. The double album Approximately Infinite Universe must set some record for discordant self-indulgence...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Ono-nism | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...hard to knock a 17-4-1 season. Only one other team, Cornell, managed a better record than that. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division I produced a lot of tough competition this year, and counting B.U.'s forfeits, only three teams finished with five or fewer losses...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...went the Ivy League, the top spot in the East and a ranking among the top five in the country. But even then you couldn't really knock the team. The Crimson came on strong at the finish, taking its last four while outscoring its opponents 30-6. Harvard grabbed the number two seed in the ECAC tourney, which didn't seem too bad as the predicted outcome had the top four seeds winning the quarterfinals, leaving Harvard to play B.C. in the semis, while Cornell and B.U. slugged it out for the right to play the Crimson...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...really hard to knock a team that has compiled such an impressive record. One could only wish that the Crimson icemen had saved some of the hustle, desire and spark that led them to a 4-4 'victory' against Dukla Jihlava, for Cornell, B.U. and Clarkson...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...same philosophy in politics. If you want to knock someone off, you do it quickly, before he has time to do favors to people, before obligations to him build up. By now, I've done something of significance for every ward leader in the township. It would be pretty hard to knock...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Machine: Rolling Jobs Into Votes | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

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