Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unbeaten record, the Yardlings allowed Yale a run in the first inning. Harvard didn't catch up until the fifth on a single by Garcia. Yale quickly regained the lead, scoring in the next inning on a sacrifice fly. With defeat looming, Demichele drove in a run in the eighth to keep Harvard alive and send the game into extra innings. In the tenth the deluge came...
...bathrooms that flooded with cold water whenever you tried to take a shower. The single, cardboard elevator was operated by Maggie, a rough, surly old woman. Single men were warned not to ride the elevator with her alone, especially if they were going all the way to the eighth floor. The Antlers had been chosen for one reason--it was cheap. The staff responded to the challenge. Accordingly, Senator McCarthy announced his willingness to stay in the staff hotel when the campaign reached California. If they were gutsy enough to take...
...American Symphonist Roger Sessions is going to be a difficult composer for the public to like. At Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall last week, his new Eighth Symphony-masterful in its lyric use of twelve-tone principles, fearless in its glacial austerity-laid one of the big eggs of the season. At the close, few in the audience even realized the work was over; men were caught with their arms folded, women with fingers entwined in their coiffures. Thus surprised, they were able to summon up only enough applause to give Sessions and Conductor Steinberg a single extra...
...Eighth Symphony is actually well worth taking up the dare. It shows that Sessions at 71 has completely absorbed the serialistic principles laid down by Arnold Schoenberg, and now uses them with rare freedom, spontaneity and expressivity. His orchestral colors look back to Alban Berg, but he is visionary in the way he creates melody through the interaction of contrapuntal strands and in the way he achieves the proper symphonic contrast of mood without the usual resort to repetition. Just as his earlier music is beginning to find favor today-notably the Violin Concerto-the Eighth will undoubtedly have...
Junior Bruce LoPucki and senior captain Bo Keefe will be out to improve on their eighth and tenth place finishes last year...