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Neither Brandeis nor Holy Cross has showed special promise, and in any case, today's encounter should prove less a challenge for the squad than Thursday's match against Tufts, which fielded an excellent team last year, or the duel with Boston College and Williams in Williamstown this Saturday...
...pitcher's duel was in the offing from the beginning, as both teams placed their top hurlers on the mound. Del Rossi, who raised his season's won-lost record to 2-0, has been pitching consistently good ball, and Tufts' lefty Miles Nogelo is the Jumbo's primary pitching hope this season. The Elephants managed to complete only two games on their Southern swing this spring, but Nogelo was outstanding in a four-hit, 3-2 victory over George Washington...
When his contest with Garga is nearly over, Shlink realizes the extent of his solitude: "Man's infinite isolation makes even enmity an unattainable goal." He finds human existence too insular to allow even the satisfaction of hostility toward another person. As Garga tells Shlink when he quits their duel, "It's not important to be the stronger, but only the living...
Together O'Toole and Burton galvanize the early scenes, making their acting duo an acting duel as they race through court and countryside flushing wild boars and wenches. Henry appropriates a peasant's daughter he finds trembling in a hut. "Shall we take her with us, or shall we have her sent?" he quips, in an anachronism that leaps centuries, but does not vitiate the pungent give-and-take of character...
...starter's flag had barely fluttered when the duel began...