Word: middleground
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...early-season wins go, though, this was worth remembering. Going in, Harvard was a ho-hum 2-2-1, down to No. 14 in the national polls and wallowing in the vast middleground of the ECAC standings...
...much as professors are polarized, manysaid they would be willing to find some middleground...
Most HRO members seem to feel that there is a logical middleground. All but one contacted yesterday agreed that HRO should take as many Harvard students as it could, and definitely more than the 80 per cent it took this year...
...attack; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. There was never any other life for the Texan. He was an exercise boy at ten, a full-fledged jockey at 14, a trainer at 20. He handled more than 1,900 winners, among them Derby Champions Bold Venture (1936), Assault (1946), and Middleground (1950), but always refused to take sole credit. "Luck plays the most important role," he once said, "not the trainer...
...Rosselini, whose integrity and genius is such that he can use the zoom simply because it exists and make great films with it; on the other, there are intelligent craftsmen like Arthur Penn who consider the zoom a "technological intrusion" and shy away from it. Visconti falls into the middleground as an honest, sensitive artist trying hard to develop an aesthetic where the zoom replaces the moving camera. He hasn't succeeded yet; Visconti is most comfortable with romantic, even operatic, material, and therefore his most effective zooms are fast and dramatic (the zooms to close-ups of Cardinale...