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...Harvard College Fund relies to a large degree on Class reunion gifts, which spark a good deal of friendly class rivalry each June. Clifton predicted that both the Class of '28 and the Class of '53 will reach or surpass their goals of $1 million and $1.5 million respectively...
Marshack asks the key question: "Did these traditions prepare the way for the artistic and symbolic traditions of the civilizations that began to develop not long after the ice melted, about 10,000 B.C.?" No one can say for sure whether paleolithic man did in fact light that intellectual spark. But it is undeniable, as Marshack notes, that the complex art comes from "persons like us, with our brains and our capacity, and that no visitors from space were required to teach them...
...LOOKED AT HIM more closely. A little old, maybe, but that spark of wit was all that counted. The baggy, slightly rumpled suit, the black lace-ups, the slight paunch (was it all just a hologram?) could not conceal the powerful, massive frame which lay beneath it all. It was a stage veneer, nothing more; surely, this was a man who deserved Respect. I pumped his hand earnestly...
...small arenas, no set schedule, everybody doing their own songs, in short, a good time. The Rolling Thunder Band often had to make up in electricity what they lacked in technique, but when they cooked they cooked with gas, and Rob Stoner's bass lines and the spark of Scarlet Rivera's soaring violin often made you forget how muddy the drums were, and if they didn't Dylan and Joan Baez generally opened the second act with "Blowin' in the Wind," and if that didn't satisfy you had no right to sit there and should have given your...
...defense proved as stingy as the offense was prolific. Junior netminder Kenny First (five saves) wrapped himself around the front of the cage like a chastity belt in the first half to spark a goaltending effort that shut out the Tritons until the last 1:47 of the game...