Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novice fan, rugby seems to be a wild melee where 30 barbarians madly pursue a weird-looking ball, as if it were a shapely wench, and they were just back from sacking a city...
...that fan sticks around for a while, he'll see rugby as a game that has incorporated the rougher aspects of football and soccer and bound them with a tradition of sportsmanship both on and off the field...
...stumpy Tip Himes started the Yale rally by beating the Crimson's Jeff Grant 4-2 at 177. Wrestling 191, Kit Dove pinned Bill Malugen of Harvard at 2:39, and turned out to be his own best fan. As soon as the referee's hand hit the floor to signal a fall, Dove ran off the mat, literally shrieking with joy, flinging his headguard to the rafters and bowling over a teammate who made the mistake of trying to congratulate...
Perhaps it's just that I'm an incurable Ravel fan. His harmonies include the most luscious, delicious chords in the history of music. His instrumentation is wizardly: the slow buildup from one section of instruments to another in the opening bars of Daphnis puts you, magically, right in the middle of a mythical forest. And his dexterity in creating, and changing, the most emotional of moods affects the glands like nothing after the Baroque...
...what the father doesn't count on, is that Johanna also falls in love with Frantz, believes in his "crabs" more than he does, and perpetuates his isolation. The father then switches alliances, and tells Leni that Johanna has been seeing Frantz. That's when it really hits the fan: Leni tells Johanna of Frantz's past as a torturer; Johanna abandons Frantz; Frantz sees his father and they commit suicide together. Leni takes Frantz's place in the attic...