Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, the Big Red will have the considerable edge of playing on their own ice in Cornell's notorious snake pit, Lynah Rink. Harvard will have to revert to the early season form that took it through its first six games without a defeat if the Crimson is to overcome...
...Heisman Trophy by a large margin. But the climax of his college career will not come until New Year's Day, when he will lead the Indians to their first Rose Bowl in 18 years. Stanford will meet unbeaten Ohio State in a classic confrontation that will pit Plunkett's passing against the Buckeyes' vaunted running attack...
...those purists who believe that only Isidore Godfrey can conduct G and S; I have even heard Malcolm Sargent do a good job of it. But one thing I do maintain is that Terrence Tobias cannot conduct G and S-he proved that last night. The pit orchestra's job on the overture was a disaster. The violins were out of tune, the winds were loud and over-represented, the whole piece was taken at a ridiculously slow pace, and nobody seemed to want to come in on cue. This interpretation (if you can call it that...
Ominous Outlook. In granting the award, the Swedish Academy may well have set in motion a showdown that will pit the Soviet regime of Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin against a lone and indomitable man who has become a hero of Russia's growing dissident movement and a symbol to those of his countrymen who yearn for greater artistic freedom. Even as Solzhenitsyn, 51, and his wife Natalya celebrated the award with friends at a party outside Moscow in the little wooden dacha of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, hard-lining Soviet literary bureaucrats were preparing an attack on him. Under...
When the fight had been broken up, the concert began again; but the mood was gone, and shortly after the Raelettes had come on stage, a quarrelsome drunk began to heckle Charles from the front of the pit. Visibly annoyed at last, Charles stopped and let the drunk talk while the crowd grew angrier and angrier. Someone in the back yelled "shut up, asshole!", the noise subsided long enough for a brief set, and Charles left hurriedly...