Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operas that adhered slavishly - and sometimes stodgily - to the Master's wishes. After World War II, Grandsons Wolfgang and Wieland broke with tradition by mounting a series of unorthodox interpretations of Wagner's works. But since the imaginative Wieland's death in 1966, the Festspielhaus has lost much of its postwar luster...
...recent doubleheader at Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium, the Twins subjected the faltering Detroit Tigers, the defending world champions, to a humiliating demonstration of speed and muscle. Tiger Ace Mickey Lolich, whose won-lost record was 14-2 before the game, lost the opener, 5-2. In the process, he gave up his first home run of the year, a line shot by Minnesota Second Baseman Rod Carew. In the second game, the Twins chased the Tigers' other star, Denny McLain (15-5), off the mound in the fifth inning; two home runs, including Third Baseman Harmon Killebrew...
...project that led him into a total revision of the geographical concept of Central Asia. He was impressed by the semi-Communistic "brotherly organization" of the Dukhobor sect. He proposed a sweeping agricultural reform, which was widely hailed. But then the whole enterprise bogged down in Czarist bureaucracies. "I lost in Siberia whatever faith in state discipline I had cherished before. I was prepared to become an anarchist," he wrote...
...thing is that Macdonald seems to have been listening. The Goodbye Look is overlong for its specious plot, weighted down with pompous prose about lost opportunities, missed communications, failed lives. As in several Macdonald mysteries, the story itself concerns a troubled youth-in this case, a rich college student who may have committed three murders, but because of head wounds and shock, cannot remember whether...
Penn has been fiercely recruiting in all sports for several years, and last fall the program had a visibly rejuvenating effect on Quaker football. The Red and Blue were undefeated when they met Harvard in late October, and they lost only to the Crimson and Yale, 18-of-25 lettermen return, including quarterback Bernie Zbrzenj so Penn will be a contender, but when they last won the Ivy title, in 1959, they had a ground attack. They don't this year...