Word: medley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well, at least Ray Essick and company can take comfort in the realization that Harvard, after a three year ascendancy, has become the best swimming team (let's forget diving for the moment) in the East. Sure, if the medley relay hadn't been disqualified early in the first day, depriving Harvard of 26 cinch points, things might have been different...
Harvard began Saturday's competition 16 points ahead of the Tigers. The bulge would have been bigger but for the disqualification of the Crimson's 400-yd. medley-relay team on the first day of the meet, costing the Crimson an invaluable 32 points...
...hard to say what stood between Harvard and the championship. Eight points, certainly, but what else? Four gulps of water, maybe, that cost the Crimson a disqualification and 32 points in the medley relay on the opening day of competition. Or maybe it was the second place finish in the 400 free relay in the last race Saturday that found Princeton taking first in the event--and the meet. Or maybe it was just the home crowd advantage...
...would be tempting, but quite unfair, to pin the loss on Hess Yntema's disqualification in the medley relay, since without Hess's Spitzian efforts of winning every other time he entered the water, the meet would not have been as close...
...with the stock market, so with the art market: the client public wants information, needs to have its confusing medley of investment choices weighed, determined and given a reassuring "objectivity." This longing for reliable data is one of the most prominent-and often most ludicrous-features of the art scene today. It has affected all experience of art, criticism not excluded. In the high-culture arena, it is best typified by the kind of imperious discourse about modernism that is now being written mainly by Critic Clement Greenberg's various followers. A fine recent example is the catalogue...