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...disappointing to end it like that, but then again we played four tournaments and lost [only] two matches, so something has to be going right.” Anderson and O’Riain carried that momentum into the dual season, going 16-4, including a perfect 5-0 in Ivy play to help the Crimson to its fourth straight undefeated league season. That earned the pair a berth in the field of 32 at the NCAA doubles championship. Although Anderson and O’Riain lost in the first round to a tough duo from Florida, their remarkable season...
...lost on Castellanos. “Me and Matt have been buddies since freshman year,” he said. “We’ve been waiting to go back-to-back for four years now.” The year wasn’t perfect, of course. Brunnig’s ERA finally settled at 5.88, for one. But for a pitcher whose potential originated in part due to a curiosity—whose career has been more frustratingly inconsistent than anything—he put it together in his senior year like never before...
...lived” on Plympton Street: first as a neophyte bookseller, then as an actual one. My introduction to the shop came in 1956. The shop, with its worn couch, its even more battered armchair, its dark-grained bookshelves, and a table piled high with books, was the perfect fantasy bookshop. Friends, acquaintances, whatever literary light was in town would drop by to visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies of the first printing of Ulysses smuggled in under...
...Stonehurst Regatta and then returning home for a resoundingly successful performance at the Head of the Charles. The Stonehurst winning streak, however, would prove to be one of the few that the Crimson would be able to maintain over the course of its season. Five years of perfect dual races came to an end in the Stein Cup, as Harvard suffered a heartbreakingly close, one-seat loss to the Bears. The Crimson had come from behind to erase an early Brown six-seat lead and even take a three-seat advantage of its own, but Brown made a surge...
...later on, I met James Merrill and attended his reading of the first portion of The Changing Light at the Boston Athenaeum. The setting was old Boston, the light from the podium lit up his face, he read with elaborate gestures; it was dramatic, it was fascinating, it was perfect...