Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening scene is a country house where Edward, an essayist, and Flora, his wife, are having breakfast. After desultory chatter about flowers and a duel with a wasp, their attention turns to an old matchseller standing by the back gate. The man disturbs Edward, but Flora finds him faintly attractive. Both are alternately fascinated and repelled by him. Edward interrogates him, insults him, soliloquizes on youthful glories now defunct. Flora too interviews him, trying to find out why she feels drawn to him. Gradually it becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory...
...Horns. The Cards certainly did try. After 8½ innings, the two teams were locked in a tight, 1-1 pitching duel. Then Cardinal Starter Curt Simmons gave way to Reliefer Barney Schultz, an ancient knuckleballer who had knocked around 19 teams in 21 years. Up came Mickey Mantle, whose second error of the Series had set up the lone St. Louis run. "I was wearing the horns," said Mantle afterward. "I had to do something." Schultz threw-a knuckle ball that didn't quite knuckle. Mantle swung-and hammered a drive that was still climbing when it bounced...
Curt Simmons will duel Jim Bouton in St. Louis today as the Cardinals try to wrap up the World Series in six games...
Stottlemyre and the Cards' Bob Gibson staged a pitching duel until a disputed call helped the Yanks break a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning. With a man out and Mantle on first, umpire Bill McKinley ruled that a Gibson pitch had hit Joe Pepitone. The Cardinals protested that the ball had hit Pepitone's bat first...
Raymonda, as revised and presented last week by Leningrad's Kirov Ballet at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, makes no more sense. There's still the wicked Saracen and the noble Hungarian knight named Jean de Brienne, a duel, an attempted abduction, a wed ding, Spanish and Moorish dances, and of course the maiden Raymonda herself...