Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...epee sweep was particularly gratifying to the Crimson as it was won without the aid of Al Gardner, first-ranked epee man, who fenced foil for this match. Bill Bennett, Jon Reckler, and Peter Piazza were the epee victors...
Lajos Heder, John Piel, Jamie Pusey, Charles Staats, Paul Wining, and Jai Yuh fenced sabre. Ted Boersman, Gardner, captain Larry Johnson, Walter McBeth, and Connie Wheeler fenced for the foil team, which lost five of its nine bouts to the Judges...
This has been our "Profession de Foil" The building will speak for itself. Only those who use the building, those who pass it every day, those who will come to Cambridge in future years will be the judges of whether the work, the thought, the ingenuity and devotion of so many people to produce this building have been worth while
...unique. There is a happy grandfather, a sort of Nordic Big Daddy without any problems except his wife's insistence upon long underwear; a mad and pudgy sculptor whose libido provides the stuff for the funniest parts of the film; the wife herself, whose sham strength acts as a foil for her husband's sham weakness...
...ideal foil is the ponderous Caliban of Earle Hyman (the only performer retained from the Festival's first Tempest in 1955, when he played the Boatswain). Caliban symbolizes evil, low I.Q., and rebellion towards authority: but he is a far more complex character than Ariel (and than usually portrayed), and it is from his lips that the word "grace" eventually issues. Hyman captures most of the complexity. When he emits those horrible words, "Burn but his books!"--especially odious for those of us who recall Senator McCarthy--the b's burst like bombs (significantly, Caliban's language is liberally peppered...