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Word: feats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson team will also be thinking of the Penn-Princeton contest today on the slow Tiger courts. If the Tigers beat Penn, Harvard has a strong chance to be part of a three-way tie for first place in the League. The Crimson could re-enact last season's feat when the netmen, considered prospects for third place at best, finally tied for first place...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Netmen Are Favored to Defeat Bruins today In EITA Contest | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...perspective is at times a bit like looking into one of two opposed mirrors, as you try to sort out the images and assign them to the figures, and a lesser actor than Bro Uttal would have made himself very dizzy in the attempt. It is no mean dramatic feat to slip from Pechorin's supercilious mastery of events to Lermontov's grotesque helplessness, but Uttal manages it as easily as taking off his coat...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: A Hero of Our Time | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

...lead to which he is best suited. The part calls for rapid changes of character: from a caricature of soulfulness to impetuosity to prideful rage to rapture to despair to pompous authority and back, finally, to rapture. That McKean can make so many transitions so rapidly is itself a feat worthy of praise; that he makes them so smoothly and so convincingly is simply amazing...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: H.M.S. Pinafore | 4/22/1969 | See Source »

...sporadic suspense and tragic finale. With an indefinable accent, Topol handles the script's half-aphorisms with more panache than they deserve ("It is easier to know ten lands than one man"). His hypnotic combination of shy manner and sly authority steals the film from Niven-a feat comparable to picking Dillinger's pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sleight-of-Tongue Artist | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...Imrie's feat was even more impressive in that he was wrestling in the heavy-weight class instead of in his usual 191-pound spot. Imrie weighed in at the last moment 1/4-pound overweight because he did not have time to visit the nearest bathroom...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Imrie Is Eighth In NCAA Meet | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

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