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Picture Prudential Center milling with tens of thousands of people, all happy, some waving balloons or shirts. Now add foil-like capes to hundreds of them, so that it seems the Pru is teeming with muscled Martians. And you have it--the aftermath of the Boston Marathon...
...more than 30 books on Americans and U.S. history; in Baltimore. Johnson was on the Greensboro, N.C., Daily News when Critic H.L. Mencken spotted him as "the best editorial writer in the South." After joining the Baltimore Sun in 1926, Johnson spent 17 years as a liberal, optimistic foil to Mencken's contemptuous conservatism. It was often said that Johnson wrote some of his best editorials in less than ten minutes; he completed books with no less facility. Among them were This American People (1951) and the series America: A History for Peter...
Those who go to Charlie Brown expecting profound theater will leave disappointed. But the play, more than anything else, provides an alternative. Admittedly, it's easy to pull off Charlie Brown. But the sublime needs the ridiculous to be sublime, and Charlie Brown acts as a foil for all the campus theater that takes itself too seriously...
There were several bright spots in the match, Goldring said. Kent Libbey, in third position in foil, and Stan Samkange, who substituted in foil, had their best bouts of the year. Heymen in sabre also made it to the finals, Goldring said...
...foil, too, Goldring said he was disappointed. David Hanower and David Merner lost key matches, and the swords-men, who could have finished third, came in a dismal ninth...