Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets, to be used and then discarded at will. But he avoids one crime, the reverential acceptance of performance traditions as gospel. In remolding the Ring to suit his aims and resources, he has played a final trick on Wagner, one even the most wilfully manipulative directors of the past haven't managed--turning these leaden operas into light entertainment...
This Ring is the artistic descendant of past parodies--notably Anna Russell's 20-minute reductio ad absurdum--but it is less a parody than a tease. At times it also seems not so much an operatic tetralogy as a four-ring circus, with Sellars as ringmaster, urging his audience to applaud, drawing its attention from one spectacle to the next...
Since its formation in January of 1894, the Harvard Sailing Club has seen men like Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40 join its ranks. The glorious past has produced a promising future that threatens to make sailing at Harvard a well-known, more heralded part of the Crimson sports world...
Some of this past glory now may be on its way back to Harvard. Crimson sailors already have qualified for this year's New England Sloop Championships by placing first in the elimination rounds two weeks ago. The team, skippered by Art Rousmaniere and crewed by Steve Strittmatter, George Bratt and Caris' Field, is favored to win the New Englands, a victory that would earn the boat a berth in the National Championships...
...women sailors also have contributed to Harvard's sailing glories in the past. They qualified for the women's National Dinghy Championships for nine consecutive years beginning in 1968. During this peak period the team won three consecutive national titles from 1968-1970 and took their latest...