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Except for the illness of hurdler Tony Lynch, the Crimson trackmen have been steadily moving towards a peak conditions. At Dartmouth last Saturday, Harvard's runners clocked some of their best times of the season, and the team performed outstandingly in the Greater Boston meet Tuesday and Wednesday despite the adverse weather conditions...
...true that "tradition tends to embalm the moment in time when the culture feels it is at its peak." Call our generation neopagan, secular or whatever, it is at odds with phoniness and insincerity. Our irreverent generation is not bent on overturning the past, but on crying out against the arbitrary embalming and sanctification of one historical moment. Our American lack of "tradition" is not our national stigma; our innate respect for and optimistic sense of an evolving human experience has been the unsung American contribution to modern civilization...
Crimson senior Richie Friedman, still hobbling from an ankle injury against Princeton, may not be able to play in either the singles or doubles. The other three Harvard seniors may be in less than peak condition because of General Examinations Thursday...
...matter. Plisetskaya carried the evening with sheer fire and ardor, at one point wowed the audience by leaping and nearly kicking the back of her head with her foot. Now 40, the long-stemmed Plisetskaya is at the peak of her powers, and she is backed by an impressive stable of soloists, among them some fast-rising younger dancers who have blossomed since the troupe last appeared in the U.S. in 1962. At the end of their three-week Met engagement, the Bolshoi will set out to bring down other houses on a 13-city tour...
...currents in the moon. These, in turn, generate a weak magnetic field which-like the earth's-is probably distorted into a cometlike shape and may even have its own collection of energetic electrons for Luna to detect. The presence of these electrons would be characterized by a peak of radiation every three hours-each time Luna passed through the lunar tail on the antisolar side of the moon...