Word: benjamin
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Basically, McCurdy's and the team's effort was to support its three of four consistent runners with the depth necessary to win meets. Benjamin and Thompson were two seniors of whom McCurdy could expect a reliable performance, and the season more than established their worth...
...five were "run out," both physically and emotionally, as was seen in the Heptagonals the following week. With the exception of Benjamin, each of the five exhausted heroes of the Yale meet had an off day at Van Corlandt Park, when the team finished fifth...
...With Benjamin, Schlaeppi, Thompson, and Brown graduating this spring, McCurdy naturally turns an expectant eye toward the freshmen. Mark Mullin will fill Jed Fitzgerald's sophomore shoes, figuratively speaking, and Bob Knapp and Dick Slansky should provide some much needed depth to the varsity next year...
...Edward '59 C 6.2 198 Little Rock, Ark. 56 Gaed, Anton '61 C 6.4 212 Charlotte, N. C. 59 Pyle, Michael '61 C 6.3 217 Winnetka, Ill. 60 West, William '59 G 6.2 205 Shaker Hgts., Ohio 61 Davenport, Raleigh '60 G 5.9 182 Newport News, Va. 62 Balme, Benjamin '61 G 6.2 199 Portland, Ore. 64 Moss, Sanford '61 G 5.10 180 Morton, Pa. 65 Mallano, Robert '60 G 6.0 206 Los Angeles, Calif. 66 Lynch, Paul '59 G 6.2 210 Brookline, Mass. 67 Wellemeyer, John '59 G 5.11 182 Skillman, N. J. 68 Porvaznik, Paul...
Still, in the last "official" census among scholars for the most eminent composers of all time, Rossini tied with Benjamin Britten for 59th place; and that isn't doing badly at all. Certainly, one must grant that Rossini had a great talent for melody and for using the human voice superbly (he was a fine professional singer himself). He also knew how to score well for orchestra; no other work of Rossini is orchestrated with such elegance and nuance as Ory. And the bedroom trio in Act II is inspired writing of the first order; Berlioz was quite right...