Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt the lassitude that overhung much of the show last night was temporary and correctible. Actors can be encouraged to deliver their lines with more conviction, members of the chorus told to feign interest in what they're singing, light and curtain cues picked up, the entire show made faster, snappier. The audience last night wasn't the sort that can energize a cast; it had, after all, passed up both "a tragedy of sex" and an original play for adults only in order to see a 20-year-old musical comedy...
...will face the toughest competition of his career, including America's premier half-miler and Olympic finalist, Tom Farrell. Farrell has been hampered by a muscle in his left thigh, but even if he scratches, Burns will have to beat at four other runners whose best times winter are faster than the record he at Dartmouth...
Burns went to Hanover after a week layoff. He usually runs faster when rest and he noted yesterday that "the University record of 2:11.6 was in the back of my mind...
Taking the lead at the gun, Burns set a torrid pace, whippping through the 440 seconds. He continued past the half mark in 1:54.5, about three seconds faster than his normal 1000 pace...
...solo half-mile time trial as a freshman in 1:53.7, and won most of his 880 races outdoors averaging a respectable 1:56. But in an AAU meet in Baltimore last June, he finished second to Villanova's Dave Patrick in 1:52.4, about a second faster than anyone on the Crimson had run all spring...