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...team was dealt a lot of adversity this year," Weiss said. "We focused from the get-go on March. They way they responded--finishing third at EIWAs and 20th at Nationals--is a credit to the whole team, not just the guys at Nationals. They excelled...
...altius, fortius than the last. Two cities had asked for the '84 Games, but in 1985 a dozen came begging for the '92 Winter Games, and six vied for the summer events. What they were willing to do, and what it all might lead to, was evident from the get-go. Brisbane flew lobsters, kiwi fruit and its mayor from Australia to East Berlin for a 1985 I.O.C. meeting, then hired a hotel staff from across the Wall to cater. The lunch tab was $1.9 million. Sofia's bidders, who had put out a meager $50,000 buffet, trudged glumly...
...concert, at Symphony Hall, opened with Beethoven's Egmont Overture. It was obvious from the get-go that this was not the Beethoven of Bernstein's New York Philharmonic or Solti's Chicago Symphony. The first powerful f minor chord, an expression of force that often drowns the listener with its weight, had a subdued, chamber-like quality not normally associated with the work. The timbre of the period woodwinds, as heard in their ensuing dialogue, differed slightly from the sound of a modern performance. This distinction in tone colors became more noticeable in the well-executed solo horn sections...
Last week at Colgate, Harvard was beaten badlyin the trenches. Without Menick in the lineup andwithout sufficient time for Linden to release theball, the offense was doomed from the get-go...
...combat the tendency towards ethnic isolation instead of integration, Gates called for a rigorous multicultural curriculum in the public school system. "America has been multicultural from the get-go," he said...