Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Tom Musliner, after a dismal season last year, may be ready to repeat the sophomore performance which placed him second in Ivy League foil standings. A fast and precise fencer, Musliner won the New England intercollegiates last year but did poorly in Ivy competition because of "the psychological disadvantage of a spectacular sophomore year," Marion said. This fall, Musliner placed second in the New England Amateur Open, where two U.S. Olympians competed...
...this collection together, and you've got the core of the 1966 Harvard football team -- a team that will foil the experts this afternoon by tying for the Ivy League championship.BOB FLANAGAN apprenticed...
...depend on his avoidance of waste, has known this for a long time. The consumer is now learning it on a broad scale, and the evidence can be found in any American kitchen. Take the case of the housewife who reels out a yard or so of expensive aluminum foil to catch the drippings from her Sunday chicken. Her husband may argue that this is waste. The wife will contend that it saves her the work of scrubbing the oven. Worth it? In a peasant economy, the wife's time would be worth very little, the aluminum...
Perhaps the best thing about this production is that it isn't just a foil for two virtuosi. Kenneth Macmillan's choreography, a mixture of classical ballet and freestyle, tells a story, not an easy thing to do in the case of Romeo and Juliet. It is hard for mutes to establish the family relationships involved, and when a letter is delivered they can indicate that it contains bad or good news but not what news. Nevertheless, Macmillan makes the plot clear and moving. When the stage is full for the crowd scenes, he coordinates the whole corps de ballet...
...kept trying. In Connecticut, she had to follow a Hungarian violinist who made everyone cry; one night in the Catskills, her routine was interrupted by round-by-round reports on the Patterson-Johansson fight; in Quebec, she was foil to Kudabux, the Man with the X-Ray Eyes; in Bridgeport, Conn., the manager blared over the loudspeaker...