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...season press-clippings. Phillippe Bennett should find the drawn-out IFA competition more to his liking than the short three-bout matches that he has had often in similarly run meets. And Howie Weiss, who bolstered the Harvard foil contingent all season, is not likely to falter measurably either...
Marion will be closely watching freshman Phillipe Bennett, who has not lived up to his pre-season potential, and who lost two bouts against MIT. John Willinsky, another freshman, will be waiting in the wings should Bennett falter. Marion said yesterday that while he had considered his foil squad to be the strong point for the Crimson when the season started, "we are the worst team in the League right...
That time of timidity is now past. We have entered on the road which can have no turning. In the knowledge that we may not falter lies our strength...
...York artists his age (36), he is almost a hermit. He shuns the art-world circuit, living and working in a cluttered container of a brownstone apartment in Manhattan which, in its contents, resembles one of his own boxes. An ironic reclusiveness directs his talk. Conversations are apt to falter and go brown under that sharp gaze. This is part of a strategy common to Samaras' art as well. "People go about," he says, "being nice or un-nice, talking to you with monotonous expectations until you do something to make them stop; then you wait for them...
...reasons. First, most of the actors obtain their height of perfection too late. Of Mice and Men may have a couple of high points and a dramatic ending to aim for, but Act I and other lesser scenes must display more enthusiasm. The actors' sensitivity or meanness should never falter. The opening dialogue between Lennie and George does not exhibit Steinbeck's intensity (although George's shouting does spark things...