Word: iona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large part of the resurgimento of Big Apple ball can be attributed to a new school of coaches: young, ruthless recruiters like rebuilding specialist Tom Penders at Columbia, Jack Powers at Manhattan, Jimmy Valvano at Iona, Billy Raftery, first year Fordham mentor Dick Stewart, and CCNY's Floyd Layne...
...running events, the Elis have two exceptionally strong men, half-miler Tom Ashenfelter and three-miler Dan Schlessinger. Barry Papermaster, who chalked up a 48.7 split at the Iona Relays last Saturday, can be counted on to hit about 50 in the 440-yd. dash. Yale milers John Heckson and Drew Mearns are each capable of coming in under 4:18, but Giegengack indicated before the meet that Mearns has "been sick" and might not be up to par for today's race...
...novel are Agathon's reminiscences about his past before he became a seer. He tells us of his marriage to Tuka, the beautiful daughter of an Athenian nobleman at whose home he was tutored, of his involvement with the gross but practical Solon, of his fascination with the Helot Iona, who later becomes a leader of the rebellion. Interesting enough, but all this smacks of soap opera, and at any rate the young Agathon seems pale in comparison to what he becomes...
...After Iona's husband is executed for treason, having shielded his wife's involvement in the rebellion, Agathon goes to seed. It is then that he starts compulsively laughing at the universe and having visions of the future...
AGATHON becomes the negation not just of Lykourgos but of everything, including himself. He insists that it is winter while they are in prison, though Peeker knows it is summer. He tells Iona, after she has helped him escape (against his will...