Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other voices are uniformly in control of the material, with Larry Indik '81 as Belcore in particular projecting impressive musical confidence: we readily believe, as he smirkingly tells the audience, that he has "never met a girl unresponsive to his helmet." Jeanine Bowman '84 projects equal confidence as the village girl Giannetta, controlling the chorus with a creamy contralto voice...
...There's more to life than football," says Rich Szaro '71, and he should know. Now an export manager for a New York City clothing firm and co-founder of Energetic Propulsions, Ltd., developers of a new, patented, horizontal motion bicycle, Szaro has shed his pads and helmet for good. There was a time not so long ago, however, when football was Szaro's whole life--from schoolboy running back to NFL placekicker with the New Orleans Saints...
...then do you get close to such a man? The objects in the exhibition are merely touchstones: a helmet he might have worn, the color of a shallow sea; a silver rhyton, or drinking horn, in the shape of a deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...
...Durgin gets an offer for a pro tryout, he'll give it a shot. He thinks the Harvard football program has prepared him well. "We've been taught to play a game of controlled aggression--you have to button down your helmet and hit, but you've got to be thinking...
Pugnacious. The word fits liberal Democrat John Culver as well as his football helmet did when he was a fullback at Harvard. Now, after ten years as a Congressman and six as a Senator from Iowa, the beefy Culver, 48, is running for re-election with all of the ferocity that he once showed on the gridiron. His opponent this time is not simply mild-mannered Republican Charles Grassley, 47, a conservative Congressman and corn farmer, but the entire New Right-the antiabortion, anti-liberal and conservative-evangelical Christian groups that have put Culver on their nationwide hit list...