Word: batons
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...mile relay, the Crimson simply got off to a poor start, and when Jim Herberich handed the baton to Dwayne Jones. Harvard already trailed by 10 yards Jones picked up the pace and finished his laps tied with Dartmouth's Roberto Belaguer. Bennet Midlo lost about four yards for the Crimson and Scott Murrer failed to catch Anthony Hilliard finishing half a step behind the Big Green's steady anchorman...
...team's health will be crucial. It's been more than three meets since the Crimson has been able to run its number-one mile relay team, but (knock on words) Dwayne Jones. Bennet Midlo, Scott Merrer, and Steve Ezeji-Okoye should all be able to carry the baton today...
Last Saturday a relay again proved to be the decisive edge in the Harvard-Springfield showdown, as the winning Springfield 880-yard relay missed its final baton connection in the opening track event and allowed the Harvard team to speed by to a 1:47.9 victory and gain the momentum that carried it to a 69-36 victory...
...theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that it had lacked for years under his predecessor, Leonard Bernstein. From 1976 to 1980, Boulez presided over the controversial Patrice Chéreau productions of Wagner's Ring cycle at Bayreuth-an incisive interpretation of the mythological saga, which...
...Celeste Aida-was rough and ragged, belted out with a desperate fortissimo instead of the more difficult pianissimo that Verdi called for in the score. Elsewhere, Pavarotti's eyes clung to the safety of the prompter's box and the conductor's baton, leaving most of the acting to Soprano Margaret Price (battling a bronchial infection but singing well nonetheless) and Stefania Toczyska, a sultry Polish mezzo and a star of the future, whose Amneris blazed with passionate fury...