Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CELEBRATION. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, co-creators of The Fantasticks, pit a handsome blond Orphan and a crestfallen Angel against the bored and impotent Mr. Rich. The show is a charmer for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic realm of childhood...
Today's meet will pit Hardin against Shorter in a rematch. Princeton's Eamon Downey, who placed third at the Heps, will also run in the two-mile...
...show is the first to use recording-studio electronics in a Broadway theatre. In the auditorium, one hears half sound straight from the stage and orchestra, and half sound that has been sent through an amplification-echo chamber system. There are also four female vocalists in the orchestra pit, who blend their harmonic flights of wordless sound into the instrumentation--and the whole thing is controlled from the back of the theatre with an eleven-channel stereo console...
Harvard's wrestling team is favored to remain unbeaten in Ivy competition today in a match which will pit the Crimson's strength against Columbia's weakness in New York...
...Time meant lives! Without a moment's hesitation, Comrade Chang Yu-liang jumped in. Chang Yu-liang took hold of Peasant Liu Kung-chen and used every ounce of strength to pass him up to the mouth of the pit. As he turned around and reached out to save the other peasant, he was overcome by the poisonous gas and fell into the pit with a splash." Thus did Chang meet his end, observed the People's Daily, sacrificing "his life in order to save his class brothers...