Word: breast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heaving harmonies, its breast-beating emotionalism, its air of Teutonic mysticism, Gurrelieder has no style of its own, is almost a parody of the musical philosophy that Richard Wagner imposed upon whole generations and that survived in the more grandiose visions of Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Nevertheless, the composition is well worth an occasional hearing, if only because it preserves in a curiously suspended state all of the conventions of romanticism. At the end, the chorus launches into a hymn to the returning sun, with its suggestion of resurrection. A musical resurrection was certainly on the way when the work...
...winning the breast stroke, Green equaled the pool, meet, and NCAA standards he had set this afternoon with a 1:02.9 clocking. Welch took the backstroke in 56.6, which tied the meet mark and established a new pool record...
...irrepressible Tigers took down three first places and brought their total for the three-day meet to four. Gardiner Green brought the home-town crowd to life with a record-smashing victory in tonight's third event, the 100-yard breast stroke, and Tom Welch made it two in a row by capturing the 100-yard back-stroke minutes later...
...wild medley relay, Bob Kaufmann did the 100-yard backstroke in 56.1, to put the Crimson half a length up on Princeton. Kaufmann was credited with a new pool record. But Princeton's Green really poured it on with a 1:02.5 breast-stroke leg that left him a length and a half ahead of Crimson captain Bill Schellestede. who swam...
Still, the varsity had to share the spotlight with a makeshift team from North Carolina State. State sophomore Ed Spencer won the 200 yard butterfly, and his teammate, Hungarian Peter Fogarasy, captured the 300 yard breast stroke as both turned in meet record clockings...