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Harvard remains atop the ECAC Division I, and finds itself in a wild Ivy League scramble with Cornell and Dartmouth. Penn, despite its poor record, is also in the thick of it, hovering in a tie for fourth behind the three co-leaders. Tonight's game will be a crucial one for both clubs...
...that it belabors Beatrice's misery without explaining it. Hers is the same struggle as Willie Loman's, but Zindel writes as if he were too cool to identify the cultural forces Miller unveiled. Zindel's tottering steps toward social analysis stop at a symbolism laid on so thick that it is embarassing. Take, for instance, Mathilde's fascination with radioactive half-life, the dominant metaphor for Beatrice's disintegration; or Beatrice's boarder, a vegetable corpse of a woman, with palsied hands, lips curled in like a death grip, and big blind eyes that lear a reminder of isolation...
...Mythologies sometimes leave this object several thick layers beneath the interpretation, but their importance lies in Barthes's originality in making the investigation in the first place. For a work of this significance it is not feeble and temporary answers which make the ultimate difference, but the questions themselves...
Johnson rigidly rationed his alcohol, became a calorie counter and slimmed down to 180 Ibs. That, like giving up smoking, was torture for one raised in Texas ranch country on meals as "filling" (meaning fatty and rich) as Mother could provide, one who had developed a taste for thick, marbled steaks, preferably followed by peaches and cream. Often, when Lady Bird Johnson served dessert to others but none to him, Lyndon tinkled the service bell and demanded his banana pudding...
...Tercentenary of Harvard College was marked with a series of thick, lavishly illustrated papers detailing the pyrotechnics of the celebration. Crimson reporters must have been run ragged keeping track of the speeches, learned papers, and not so learned bashes which went on during the celebration, but the Business Board managed to sell space by the yard to hotels, shopkeepers, merchants, tailors, theatres, and a score of other enterprises eager to congratulate Harvard on its longevity. On the whole, The Crimson's job on the Tercentenary could stand up to any other coverage--including the Boston Transcript's, even though that...