Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After four weeks of kicking up the Briggs Cage dust, Coach Bruce Munro's lacrosse squad finally got a break in the weather and moved outside on Tuesday. Even then the "practice field" was only a gravel pit affair behind the baseball diamond, and the squad is not expected is shift over to their Business School field until this afternoon...
...females and only two dancers, talent for the production has been recruited from music schools in Boston and Cambridge. Although dancing plays a prominent part, "Dido and Aeneas" is more an opera than a ballet. A large chorus and orchestra, therefore, made up of undergraduates seated in the pit of the dining hall will supplement the principals on the stage...
...leopard, however, did not enter into the Oklahoma City community spirit. After twitching his ropelike tail, baring his large yellow teeth and emitting rasping bursts of feline obscenities, he began trying to jump out of the pit in which he had been installed to serve his time. The sheer walls were 18 feet high, and this did him no good at all. But he kept jumping. One day last week he tried a bank shot-he hit one wall at an angle, ricocheted upward toward the next, and got over...
...innovation for the pit: Bruno Walter would conduct performances of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, with Flagstad as Leonore...
Then, intense little Dancer Graham, 47, set about pondering "why I should appear on a stage with a symphony orchestra in the background instead of in the pit." She decided to compose herself a solo on the story, from the fourth book of the Apocrypha, of Judith, who delivered the Israelites from the siege of Nebuchadnezzar by charming his chief general, Holofernes, and then lopping off his head. Composer Schuman set to work on a score...