Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Action in the House football league today will pit an undefeated Dunster House football team against an underdog Lowell House squad. In the afternoon's other scheduled football contest the lately impressive Eliot Elephants will meet the Winthrop Puritans...
...year-old Merlyn Stuart Pitzele (pronounced Pit-sell-lee), the rewards of a lifetime in and around the labor movement have been considerable. A natty dresser and nifty talker, Pitzele is Business Week labor editor, was Dwight Eisenhower's labor adviser, served as Tom Dewey's New York State Mediation Board chairman. Last week, appearing in the McClellan committee's investigation of labor-relations Wheeler-Dealer Nathan Shefferman (TIME, Nov. 4), Mel Pitzele owned up to still another reward. While he was editing stories, advising Ike and mediating labor disputes, he was also collecting...
...game will pit Coach Henry Lamar's deceptive T-formation attack against the power plays of the Princeton single wing in a test of offensive patterns...
Sisyphusisme soon proved to be cold stoic comfort to pit against the Wehrmacht and Gestapomen of World War II. Confronted with the Hitler terror, Camus cried "What values did we have . . . which we could oppose to his negation? None." In The Plague (1947), a parable of the Resistance couched in terms of a city under sentence of bubonic death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned...
...religious opera, The Carmelites (TIME, Feb. 11), and Richard Strauss's seldom-produced Ariadne auf Naxos, a kind of Baroque double feature, sometimes as serious as Salome, sometimes as raffish as Rosenkavalier. With Soprano Rysanek in the title role and Pittsburgh's Conductor William Steinberg in the pit, the production was a triumph...