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...Paul Tsongas and Co. To take advantage of the GOP's blunders, Tsongas insists his colleagues must present "a basket of ideas that will compel people to vote Democratic. You cannot, in essence, say, 'Look we did all these things back in the 1960s and 1930s,' or 'We're nicer people.' That overbrimming basket does not exist yet, Tsongas says, but by 1984 he believes the likes of Massachusetts elder statesman Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 will move away from the failed "New Deal approach" and join the ranks of the revised left. "I'm shifting, why shouldn...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saving the World Without Easy Answers | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

Biogen Corp. thought there couldn't be a nicer place to settle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hospitality, Cambridge Style | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

True accounts of how to be cheap (although thrifty is a nicer word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penny-Pinchers | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

This scant literary attention criticism is excuseable, at least with respect to Amy Lowell, since she was a far more interesting person than poet. As D.H. Lawrence commented once to her in a letter, "How much nicer, finer, bigger you are, intrinsically, than your poetry." (Amy stood five foot two and weighed over 250 pounds.) Sole heir to a large portion of the family's original fortune, Amy's comportment, her eccentricities and the scandals which followed her made her one of the most talked-about literary figures...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvitv, | Title: Of Lowells and Their Passions | 10/28/1980 | See Source »

...Harvard tally looked a whole lot nicer, but UMass's was just as effective. Following an apparently wasted corner kick opportunity, Tony G. Dias came up with the ball and, in the midst of a scramble, somehow pushed a pass to teammate Tony M. Dias, who side kicked the ball past Crimson goalie Pete Walsh to tie the score. (Tony J. Diaz, a Harvard forward, did not play because of injury...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Booters Stop UMass Minutemen on the Green, 3-1 | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

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