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...short supply, the number "Recollections of an Old Dancer" is a finely wrought exception. Done to the song Mr. Bojangles, it captures the wrenching effect of advanced age for a dancer, together with the agelessness of the spirit of dance. Another standout is an amusing stunt number called "Fourteen Feet," which might have been titled "Look Ma, No Feet!" Seven dancers implant their feet in nailed-down clogs and proceed to sway, shake and swivel. At one point the lighting trans forms them into electric eels. Electric they...
...Fourteen years before Columbus sighted America-in 1478, to be precise -the first book cranked off the press of a printer named Theodoric Rood in Oxford, England. Its title was Expositio Sancti Hieronymi in Symbolum Apostulorum. Its subject was the Apostles' Creed, and it marked the birth of what would become the oldest and most venerable publishing house in the English-speaking world: the Oxford University Press...
...Last semester, we were able to accept both commuters and transfers," said Christopher M. Jedrey, senior tutor at Lowell House, which accepted five transfer students yesterday. "But fourteen returning students cut the number we could accept," he added...
...blinding light or voice from heaven for Clive Staples Lewis; but his conversion on that picnic excursion had some of the impact of St. Paul's. The ruddy-faced writer's works were to lure innumerable souls into the precincts of belief. Fourteen years after his death at 64, this Pascal of the Space Age is the only author in English whose Christian writings combine intellectual stature with bestseller status...
This never used to be a big game. In fact, from 1960 to 1973 this never used to be much a game at all. Fourteen times Harvard and Brown squared off on the gridiron during that span, and on 13 of those occasions the Crimson triumphed...