Word: mattie
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Harvard's final record last year was terrible and no one denies it. Next year's outfit might surprise if freshman captain Matti Bozek plays as well expected...
...smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged to four separate girls; Puntila sober throws the brides-to-be off his estate...
While the Marxist polemics are dated-who keeps servants, anyway?-the psychological tensions of the play are intact. Actor Roger Hamilton is a bristling porker of a Puntila, rutting, grunting and swilling his way through the part, but Michael Fairman's Matti is a trifle too stiff and condescending to be a Sancho Panza foil to this flamboyantly intoxicated Don Quixote...
...MATTI FORSS Helsinki, Finland
Story's competitors quickly learned just how tough he was. Striding effortlessly over the frozen ground, he took the lead after the first mile-and-one-half. At the two-mile mark, he turned back to Brigham Young's Matti Raty and said: "This is too close. We'd better break out and force the pace." Raty moved out with Story, but he soon found himself dropping behind the fleet-footed Oregon State runner. By the time the leaders had rounded the 17th green and headed for the finish line, Story had a 50-yd. lead...