Word: lentz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the freshman lacrosse team over-whelmed Yale, 14-4, for its sixth straight win and eighth of the season against only one loss, beer and champagne followed in abundance at Dillon Field House. The Yardling stickmen had reason to celebrate. They were, according to Coach Jim Lentz, the "finest freshman lacrosse team I've had in my ten years at Harvard...
...Lentz admitted that, midway through the season, he had been worried. "When we beat a weak Governor Dummer team by only 9-5, and then followed that with a lackluster 10-4 performance against Dartmouth, another weak team. I felt that the boys hadn't improved too much from their early season showings," he said...
...FALLING HILLS by Perry Lentz. 468 pages. Scribner...
Lunatic Moment. Precocious Perry Carlton Lentz, born in Alabama 79 years after the massacre, started writing The Falling Hills as an honors project for a B.A. degree at Kenyon College in Ohio. He mined the eyewitness reports of Fort Pillow survivors as preserved in the National Archives. Now a doddering 24, and an old soldier of the campus (he is taking his Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville), Lentz has published a book with none of the sweet-magnolia swash and polished ballroom buckle of Gone With the Wind but much of the visceral realism that characterized MacKinlay Kantor...
Some readers will be offended by the highly explicit manner in which Author Lentz describes the rude indignities heaped on the ignorant Negro troops by their white superiors, or the meanness shown by Confederate recruiters as they drag 16-year-old boys away from their homes to fight and die. There is reason to believe, however, that Lentz tells...