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...single soulls for positions is the club eight. The race took place on a Saturday morning, with the finals scheduled for that afternoon. Still toting colds, the Crimson oarsmen eliminated the Scullers by one-third of a length and sat back to await the winner of the other semi-final heat...
...Harvard Advocate begins its first issue with a dandy little story by Keith Lowe. New Day, as it is called, tells of the first day of Guinean independence as recorded by a semi-literate citizen who becomes a temporary constable to prevent riots during the country's first election. The plot is ingenious and very funny, but the great virtue of the piece lies in its marvelous prose. The narrator's naivete permits him to speak in wild, enthusiastic language, which sounds neither maudlin nor contrived: They crying no more blackman sweat to sweeten whiteman tea, no more for coolie...
...with some fine images (his eyes bulged like tiny white balloons; the crown of the sun, burning into the top of the ridge like a match burning into the edge of a sheet of paper). There are still signs of roughness, however, and a profusion of commas and semi-colons in paragraphs where Kelly jams together various clauses in a weak imitation of Faulkner. In one place, near the beginning of the story, Kelly pictures the imagination of the little boy wandering from his father's bed to the various associations it suggests. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this...
...elaborate regional coverage in Utah and Idaho, soon was serving an area bigger than all New England. He introduced fair and comprehensive news coverage to fill the space once heavily committed to fulminations against the church. When the Saints came marching in to Salt Lake City for their semi-annual "conference," the Tribune staffed the story generously and played it straight...
Living Within. Michelangeli's house is currently shared by three female students; yet friends who know him well vow that he leads a semi-monastic life devoted exhaustingly to perfecting and augmenting his repertory of Beethoven...