Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saving sprinter Wayne Andersen for the mile relay. Harvard relinquished the dash to Brown's Win Anakwa. The Crimson won the mile relay in 3.20, which set a new field house record but failed to equal the current University mark...
...before deadline. It also gave producers and the other daily critics a pain in the neck. The producers claimed that their shows were not ready for reviewers' eyes at previews, and the critics made unseemly comments to the effect that any fellow who couldn't dash off a sharp review in an hour ought to go paint gold-leaf letters in some monastery. The Dramatists Guild complained, the League of New York Theaters complained, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers complained...
...with life itself. Fired by this infinite capacity for self-renewal, Rubinstein has simply never stopped improving. Where the artistry of most virtuosos begins to decline at about 60, he has conquered the heady impetuosity that sometimes flawed the playing of his early years. He thrives by infusing a dash of improvisation, "a drop of fresh blood," into each performance. He will even experiment with new fingerings "that suddenly occur to me" in the middle of a performance. "It is dangerous, I admit," he says, "but that is the way music develops." As a result, says Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...notes. Nothing seemed to go right. He tried suicide, but the frazzled belt he used snapped under his weight. "The American critics were right," he admits. "In those days I dropped maybe 30% of the notes. My difficulty was that I had so much vitality and dash that I could get away with murder in Europe. But in America they felt that because they paid their money they were entitled to hear all the notes...
...Richard Robinson, who set a Yale record in the dash at 6.2 last week, pulled during the Big Three meet and will be doubtful for the Heptagonal meet. Harvard's Wayne Anderson won the dash at 6.3, followed by teammates Andy Cahners and Sam Robinson, who tied for second...