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Posting a record of that caliber is a pretty stiff order, considering the heavy schedule confronting the Crimson. In the Ivy League, Harvard must face Cornell, which merely went 16-0 and won the National Championship last year, along with perennial contenders Penn, Brown and Princeton. Outside the conference, the stickmen must contend with college-division powers C.W. Post and Adelphi, as well as UMass, which as 17 seniors back from the team that blasted Harvard last year. Hofstra, a squad that made the top ten last spring and edged the Crimson on Long Island, 11-7, is also...
...actors, Goberto Lewis Fernandez and Antonio Dajer Cerna, as Dr. Baglioni and Juan, give the most color to their roles. Almost buried under a 17th century cape and stiff collar, Fernandez mixes feisty arrogance with guile and pomp. Dajer (co-director with Chuck Gray) has engaging warmth as the young student and happy romantic. With robust simplicity, he blinds himself to the man-made net that entraps him far from the "green hills and sea foam" of his native Naples. Unfortunately, this makes his realization of the odiousness of Beatriz and the extent of his predicament as sudden...
...been embalmed for a thousand years. They are not unbelievable--it is merely difficult to understand why Drury would ever have bothered to resurrect this hedonistic, simple-minded Pharaoh and his sycophantic friends. The dialogue, moreover, could only have been overheard coming from inside a dusty sarcophagus. Like the stiff-jointed and forbidding statuary that is ancient Egypt's gift to the world's wealthier art collectors, Drury's characters never bend or smile--they simply stare straight ahead at the endless desert of a plot the author has created for them...
...including trade, tourism, etc.), were perturbed by the notion of agreeing to give up virtually all the territory even before negotiations begin. The Arabs were pleased by the implication of nearly total Israeli withdrawal, but were upset by the notion of foreign forces on their soil. Rabin, who faces stiff opposition in the May election, professed to be happy...
...Belt is not all of India, of course, and the Congress Party still has a well-financed political machine at its disposal to win friends and influence votes. During the campaign, government workers were granted extra rent and medical allowances, some farm loans were canceled, and a stiff increase in land taxes was halved. The government refused to license private helicopters for political campaigns; meanwhile, Mrs. Gandhi's speech-making trips in her air force chopper were permitted "for security reasons...