Word: friar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valiant fling at the part. His "sword of heaven" soliloquy is neatly spoken, discreetly underlined by one horn, then a second horn, harp, and flute. But Richardson is most effective in finding humorous aspects in the role, such as when, on donning a monk's disguise, he mimies Friar Peter's rolling of the hands. (Shakespeare had already used the ruler-in-disguise device in Henry V, when the king wanders incognito among his troops just before the Battle of Agincourt...
Nahigian will not relinquish his baseball duties at Providence because of the Harvard job. He will continue as Friar head man in addition to his fall responsibilities in Cambridge...
While Brown football hasn't reaped many benefits from Nahigian's talents--the Bruins are the perennial doormats of the Ivy League--he has been most successful at Providence. His baseball teams have complied a 140-113-2 record in his 14 years there, and six of his last Friar teams have participated in the NCAA District I championships...
...champagne popped open in the Harvard locker and the Friars with their distracting bat-persons (female) had to take the two hour bus ride back to Providence, thinking maybe next year. Harvard fans will see their coach, Alex Nahigian, again though, as he will be here next Fall to assist Joe Restic. After the grid campaign however he returns to the Rhode Island capital to prepare the Friar baseball squad for another shot at the series...
Discalced Carmelite Friar William McNamara also understands the lure of the East. "People in the West, particularly the young, are being fed stones instead of bread in churches and schools. They know nothing of the deepest mystical tradition; yet they want inner experience. They hear there's a mystic tradition in the East, and they go over...