Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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YOUNG WESTON recovers. Having lost his lover to an ambitious senior associate and his only friend to academia, he finally gets his feet on the ground by engrossing himself in his work. Professor Osborn improves as well. Presumably more familiar with his subject here, he writes more smoothly about Weston's ascent. Characters become at least humanoid, if never quite lifelike. Camilla Newman, whose most interesting feature is her name, is for most of the book just another pretty face fronting an ambitious, competitive young lawyer. As Weston begins to make it by himself, Camilla develops more personal qualities...
Pompan won the New England singles championship this spring in the midst of reeling off a 13-match winning streak. But against his only national-caliber opponent--Jay Lapidus of Princeton--Pompan lost in straight sets...
Recollections of such incidents were swiftly fading from memory when the author got to Le Chambon 30 years after the war. It may be regrettable that Hallie put them down in a form in which so much drama and suspense are lost in scholarly detail. That he recovered the story at all, however, can only be called another good...
Four members of the Crimson lacrosse squad also played in the New England All-Star game yesterday, taking the field for the East squad, which lost 20-17. Faught played attack, Egasti and Nelson midfield, and First goalie--where he yielded just one goal in the quarter he played. Harvard coach Bob Scalise rotated three other goalies in the other three quarters...
...scribes' mound-man Steve Herzenberg twirled masterful two-hit ball, but lost his shutout bid when short-fielder Bob Boorstin committed three embarrassing errors to let in a pair of unearned runs in the seventh...