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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burt Reynolds is the white running-back hero, Billy Clyde Puckett, Kris Kristofferson is his buddy, split end Shake Tiller, and Jill Clayburgh is the girl of their dreams, Miss Barbara Jane Bookman, a Phyllis George clone who looks to have maybe been Sigma Chi Sweetheart of 1962 at Ole Miss. And before this proceeds any further, the discriminating moviegoer should know that while Semi-Tough is at times an honestly funny film, it is also maddeningly sexist...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Sounds Good, B.J. | 12/7/1977 | See Source »

...Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATES FOR CLASS MARSHAL | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), Harvard's only nationally-affiliated fraternity, is now looking for a home in Cambridge following the sale this summer of its former residence, an SAE official said yesterday...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: SAE Sells Frat House | 9/28/1977 | See Source »

...illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and Vladimir Nabokov all enjoyed the pleasures of arithmetic while exploring the peripheries of language. But it was not until 1960 that the newly formed OuLiPo officiated at the shotgun wedding of science and literature. Its first and still most remarkable product was Cent Milie Milliards de Poems (A Hundred Thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perverbs and Snowballs | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Stuart Simon, Sigma Alpha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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