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...highest Ivy League finish ever (second place), and Marion lost but two of his nine front-line performers. Consider: Harvard has added two experienced freshman fencers, both of whom have already qualified for the United States Under-Nineteen National Team, and one of whom is the Under-Nineteen foil and epee champion. Consider: the entire squad has a year's experience under its belt. Edo Marion has reason to smile...
With the sabre team's pre-season difficulty in resuming last year's level of performance. Marion now looks toward his foil contingent on his strongest weapon. This will surprise a few people because this was where Harvard was weakest last year. The major reason for the coach's optimism in Phillip Bennett, one of the Crimson's two Under-Nineteen standouts. Bennett is described by Marion as "an excellent performer," although the coach says he is "not as technically refined as he might...
...follows. Shahryar, king of Samarkand, has been deceived in love. Resolving that woman is a weak and sinful creature, he decides on an elaborate punishment which includes his personal deflowering of a virgin every night and her execution the following morning. After a time, Scheherezade's turn arrives. To foil the king's designs, she begins a story that first evening but stops before its conclusion, promising to continue the following evening Intrigued the king grants her a respite, and for the next one thousand nights the strategy repeated Finally. Scheherezade, having so well entertained aimed her king, asks...
...Jeff Bridges succeeds less as the young boxer, Ernie, but only because his role is so badly underdeveloped. In a few scenes with his girlfriend, he is given depth and personality of his own. Most of the time, his motivations are completely uncertain. Ernie has been conceived as a foil for Tully, and their relationship exists chiefly to reveal more of the older man's character...
...narrow confines of our existence with the madcap and improbable style that good farce demands. All the elements of farce are present and accounted for--mistaken identities, chance meetings, characters hiding beneath tables and inside closets, young innocents seeking thrills and happiness, a pig-headed miser trying to foil them, and minor characters of vast experience and questionable virtue. What the play point-blank suggests to the audience, in the moral pronounced before the final curtain, is that we should all free ourselves for some adventure in life. And with the small-town good sense that is so embarassing...