Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's diamond melee is the feature event of the Student Association's Block Party where the businessmen will be seeking to avenge a 5-4 tennis defeat at the hands of the invaders...
Competing in a class limited to inexperienced swimmers--mainly from Bill Brooks' summer swimming class, Nilsson was clocked in the free style event at 25.3 seconds, a tenth of a second slower than the time posted by a Varsity squad member, Steve Wise, in winning the open class race over the same distance...
With just the merest hint of deviltry in his roving eye, Vag waited for the big event of the day at Braves Field. It was Reading Period, but so what! Encased in his now rather shoddy seersucker jacket, with a Chesterfield protruding not at all jauntily from his mouth, he waited while a man in a double-breasted suit walked onto the field. Today, of all things foolish, they were going to raffle off a '47 Packard, and what was more silly, he was waiting around on the hope that he would win it. Of course he never won anything...
...success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal box. Whether he liked it or not the British team won the big event, the international military jumping contest...
Back in Mozart's birthplace, the Salzburg Festival's main event last week was a different kind of opera. Listeners found few tunes to whistle when they came away from Danton's Death, the new opera by Gottfried von Einem. But few could for get the sheer violence of Einem's orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant...