Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Oregon crew placed second by only one second in the Pacific Coast Crew Classic, the equivalent of the Eastern Sprints, they were no competition for the Radcliffe dynamos...
DIED. Margaret Hamilton, 82, character actress in 75 films and scores of plays who in her most memorable role, as the cackling, green-faced Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic The Wizard of Oz, became an incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury, Conn. Ironically, Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before succumbing to the acting bug in 1932. She went on to portray dozens of stern spinsters, puritanical aunts and smarmy gossips, and was well known as the kindly storekeeper Cora in five years of Maxwell House coffee TV commercials...
...spinning it out with an effortless technique that lets the music speak unimpeded. In the robust First Concerto and the rippling Second, Ashkenazy pays homage to the music's Mozartean wellspring in a clean, carefully articulated reading. The Third Concerto finds him in a more passionate, but still fundamentally classic, mood; the piece was, after all, written around 1800, while Beethoven's teacher Haydn was still alive. The revolutionary Fourth Concerto, in which the piano daringly speaks before the orchestra, gets an introspective, reflective performance in keeping with its contemplative nature. Only in the Fifth Concerto does Ashkenazy's rectitude...
After a sluggish start, dropping races to Princeton, Dartmouth and several Western crews at the San Diego Crew Classic early in the season, the heavies blasted by Yale and Brown in their final two races. These victories shook up the Eastern rankings and moved Radcliffe of three notches from seventh to third...
They are somewhat unlikely heroes. Neither is a particularly classic of Head runner, but what they lack in style they make up in dedication...