Word: doves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dave English is the Crimson's chief hope in the diving events. English injured his shoulder three weeks ago, but it appears to have recovered. He dove well, if not spectacularly, to win both the one- and three-meter diving events at Yale last weekend. Look for English to be a factor in the meet...
...face of a liberal, New York-bred college graduate. It comes as no surprise is that he went to Harvard. What is more of a surprise is that he once served in the British merchant navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these stories, unlike present-day America, are places where the past is intricately woven into the present--Helprin's range includes France, Russia, Israel, Italy, and Jamaica...
Harvard senior Dave English, in what was one of the outstanding performances of the day, dove to first places in the one-meter diving events, besting Navy star Rusty Eckstrom who came in second both times...
Foye neatly spun away from two would-be tacklers, then dove for the final two yards, his outstretched frame crossing the elusive goalline. The Kirkland workhorse's urden was increased by the absence of side-kick Burelle Duvauchelle, a former varsity gridder who separated his shoulder in the early going. Gary Gillis came on to still the gap left vacant by Duvauchelle's injury...
Occasionally Powers' exasperation and despair overcome him and his control slips. Then he is apt to plant heavy symbols: worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...