Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard hockey team, on the verge of mathematical extinction from the ECAC playoffs even before the puck is dropped for the Beanpot, will attempt to justify its current 14th place standing in Division One when it faces the league's worst team, Princeton (0-9-3), this afternoon at Baker Rink...
...machinery and watches it work--and he's more successful than the Duke ever can be. But he lets the audience fend for itself in the play's moral wilderness, relying on energy and competence rather than a consistent interpretation to pull them through. To be fair, any attempt at consistency in Measure for Measure would end up forcing parts of the play out of shape; but if directors never even tried, the play might just as well be left to the critics. Few enough productions disturb its rest...
...after a grueling, bruising, bank-busting campaign, two confused, torn and alienated parties will head for the convention halls, and in one last desperate attempt to persuade turned-off electorate not to turn away from the parties, from voting, from giving politicians a chance to correct the mistakes of other politicians who were elected in the first place to undo the modifications of the reforms of the earlier politicians, the parties will turn to revered senior statesmen, men with images, with romantic support, with possibility--and nominate Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey...
...racquetmen will attempt to defeat Princeton today for the first time in three years. The convincing dunking of Navy bodes well for the Harvard nine, which needs to win the match in order to have any hope of capturing the national title...
Wendy Sonnabend, Eleanor Cunningham and Stephanie Baum will attempt to defend the B title which Harvard took home last year...