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...home town, and I go walking there. Yet I have to admit that I never liked my home town a whole lot, so it's odd that I'm drawn to Central Square. When this puzzle occurs to me, I think about a phrase that Ezra Pound wrote, "Old friends the most," and that solves it in a simple way, for a while...
Jiggetts started the workover with his pair of decisive wins in the weight events. The 260-pound senior heaved the 35-pound weight 57 ft. 10 1/2 in. for the first victory, then tossed the shotput 51 ft.--even for the second...
...stock stage Jew, but has written speeches that (at least to the modern ear) make him something better. And the production seriously stumbles at a critical point in the interpretation of Shylock's position in the play's scheme of redemption. When Portia confounds Shylock by allowing him his pound of flesh but condemning him to death if an iota of blood be spilled in its excision, the reaction of the Venetians is such that it seems a cheap trick rather than a masterly example of a literalist hoist on his own petard. At this point Graziano alone expresses...
Friday, November 22--Disaster strikes, inevitably. Phillips, after taking a shower, trips and sprains his ankle on a copy of the Cantos of Ezra Pound, reported missing the night before from the reserve desk at Lamont Library...
Whether Harvard can get alumni to "really pound the pavement" in search of qualified women and minority students, as David L. Evans, associate director of admissions said this week, is as yet unknown...