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...Crimson triumphed by retaining its composure and concentration despite both controversy and interruptions due to equipment failures. As against Cornell, the sabre trio of Mike Bierer, Rob Homer and Richard Gillette led the Crimson charge by winning seven of nine bouts...
Haley can even pinpoint the moment his old world stopped. It was Jan 31, 1977, the morning after the last episode of Roots was aired. Many writ ers find their lives altered by a bestselling book, but perhaps no other writer in history, from Homer to Norman Mailer, has been hit so hard so suddenly with so great a success. Roots as a book was already a bestseller; then came the TV triumph, which sent hundreds of thousands of additional read ers out to look for the book, making it the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller...
Such idyllic images of childhood, however, were not limited to portraits commissioned by the wealthy. Charming street urchins and the newly freed blacks were the subjects of other romanticized portraits, such as Seymour Guy's Little Sweeper (circa 1887) and Winslow Homer's A Sunflower for Teacher (1875). Later the stark, sepia-toned photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine documented much harsher childhoods on the streets of New York and in the mills of Georgia...
Michael Bierer began the onslaught, slashing his way to a 5-0 victory. Robert Homer followed with a second sabre triumph. Bierer's second win clinched the match for the Crimson and the swordsmen then tested some new talent...
Unfortunately, Vastola's colleagues could not follow his lead. The sabre team, in particular, had trouble, taking but three of its nine fights. Mike Bierer and Rob Homer, usually two of the Crimson's most dependable fencers, each triumphed in but one of their three bouts. Their successive third-round defeats, after which Harvard trailed 8-12, left the Crimson with what turned out to be an impossible comeback fight...