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Grim Waters. In essence, Argento and Nolte have written an opera for the music lover who also enjoys the dreamscapes of Fellini and early Bergman. Moods billow like the Dry Ice currents that lap across the stage, suggesting waters as grim as the Styx. Characters are rarely who they seem to be. Even Poe is not always sure who or where he is. His antagonist is a shadowy character named Griswold - based on Poe's vindictive literary executor, Rufus W. Griswold - who seems to be lago here, Mephistopheles there, even turns into Poe himself...
After a rain-soaked second practice, Medenica found himself placed 15th out of 18 starters. A strong effort in the monsoon weather brought him in seventh after the rain-shortened ten-lap race, but he fell one position shy of garnering points towards the series championship...
With 20 yards to go in the 22-lap race, anchorman Jeff Campbell was tripped by an usher who had stepped on the track to retrieve some peanut shells thrown from the stands. Before the accident, Harvard was in fourth place, and challenging for third...
Some task force members fear that failure to reach agreement in the task forces and coordinating committee could throw the final educational decisions into Rosovsky's lap, rendering worthless years of work and the dean's carefully devised system. Rosovsky rejected this notion ("I hope you don't have an army view of the way things work") and insists that, although he is chairman of the coordinating panel, each of its members has an equal voice. And to act by fiat, Rosovsky adds, would only be to doom his efforts to failure: "This faculty is self-governing in educational matters...
After the final win, the team took a victory lap en masse around Jadwin's 220-yd. track and in anticipation of Saturday's Heptagonal meet at Cornell, yelled thunderously, "Heps! Heps! Heps...