Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burning Story. Scott is a freelance writer and newspaperwoman (Winston-Salem Journal, Baltimore Sun) who specializes in industrial hazards and environment. Her research ranges more widely than Brodeur's. She tracks down cases of beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage...
Travesties' first act is full of the kind of wordplay, witty repartee and the name-dropping of ideas that has always been Stoppard's strength in the past. It's a lightweight world of drawing room comedy in which the foursome of Carr, Tzara and their English girl-friends gets itself confused with the foursome of Wilde's play. Tzara explains how he discovered the word "dada" and Joyce is good for a couple of show-stopping limericks, but things never get off the ground. Some of the minor characters are better drawn, such as Carr's butler, who oversees...
...feel drawn by its atmosphere of vague, reassuring calm. Bromell resolves the problems of experience, power and human relationships in suggestive ways, but both his statement and his resolution are limited. There is a gentility to the selection of people, places and sentiments that can make the book seem lightweight. Not everyone is decent and thoughtful like the Richardsons, and Bromell doesn't have to answer for that. But there is probably more to life than keeping it, as Bromell suggests we should if we are to be happy, at just the slightest distance away...
...coaches bring much experience to the squad. Aiding head coach John Baker '72 will be Bill Backman, a Harvard police officer who was captain of Northeastern's undefeated 1972 crew. Peter Huntsman '74 promises to improve the Radcliffe lightweight prospects. Huntsman, a member of last year's intercollegiate champion Harvard lightweights, earned a bronze medal in the U.S. lightweight straight four at the World Championships in Switzerland last summer...
...Porcellian Club boat comprised of four Crimson heavyweight and lightweight oarsmen captured the Wyfold cup at the Henley. Bowman George Host, Scholle, Dave Porter, and Woody Canaday brought the Porcellian Club victory in its first Henley attempt...