Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battery was perhaps the Crimson's best asset with not one, but three ace pitchers and a catcher with a very good arm in Dan Williams. Besides Driscoll, pitching coach Bob Lincoln could throw Milt Holt who lost only one of nine contests, or Mike O'Malley who stepped into the captain's shoes and pitched very good ball in spite of not getting the wins at first. Against Yale, for instance, O'Malley did not allow a single earned run only to have the Eli pitcher toss a no-hitter and O'Malley took a 2-1 loss...
...Nixon, to antiwar demonstrators at the Lincoln Memorial...
...years later, what did he promise to do while 300,000 demonstrators rallied in Washington to protest the war? What did he talk about in his dawn visit to demonstrators at the Lincoln Memorial...
...Across Lincoln Center at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, an evening of sheer visceral joy was conjured up by Britain's Royal Ballet. The chief magician was Rudolf Nureyev, the company's conspicuous permanent guest artist. Following Kenneth MacMillan's disappointing Manon, which inaugurated the Royal's five-week New York-Washington, D.C. season, Nureyev scored a double success. He danced an impressive debut in the comic ballet La Fille Mal Gardée. On the other half of the program was a scene from La Bayardère, the "white ballet" he restaged...
...answer, alas, is quite a lot. Dybbuk, which was given its world premiere at Lincoln Center last week by the New York City Ballet, is a wan and murky evocation of the Hasidic legend that is all but drowned in a sea of pretentious metaphysical subfusc. The dybbuk story, a ghetto version of Romeo and Juliet given classic shape in Shloime Ansky's 1916 Yiddish play, involves the star-crossed lovers named Channon and Leah. Once their fathers had taken a vow that some day their children should wed. By the time boy meets girl, the vow has been...