Word: fests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there was that muggy Sunday afternoon in late July when Giamatti and other dignitaries sat on folding chairs on the infield grass at Shea Stadium. The occasion was a love fest, the official retiring of the number (41) of the Mets' former pitcher Tom Seaver, a.k.a. Tom Terrific. In the packed stands, goodwill and nostalgia outweighed even the humidity -- until the public- address announcer, introducing the honored guests, reached Giamatti. "Boo!" the crowd responded. "Booooooooooo...
March 12, 1988: The icemen turn the consolation game against Vermont into a scoring fest. Harvard captures a 7-1 victory and earns a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson writes, "It was the kind of game Harvard Coach Bill Cleary could wrap up and stuff in a capsule." If only he had the wrapping paper...
...Mark Prascak, the master of this absurdist fest...
...wooing top prospects. "Everybody's hustling," says Robert Thornton, director of admissions at New College in Florida. Last week Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., held an open house featuring a student play and poetry readings to emphasize the school's strength in the arts. Colgate staged a science fest, where one prospect proved so dazzling that a professor murmured, "Sign her up, sign...
Members of the Harvard women's water polo team may not soon forget the challenge they faced at last year's Eastern Tournament. They faced--and fell to--Sports Fest, an all-star team which representea the east in last year's National Sports Festival...