Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When things onstage got a little slow, I listened to the little band in the pit, which is good; it can play hot and cool, and its arrangements of the dullest songs are snappy. (Alan Lutkus, by the way, plays saxophone and clarinet...
...Eastern coaches are curious about developments in the 200 yard butterfly, which will pit together Bentley, Dick McDonough of Villanova, possibly Fred Elizalde of the Crimson, and Joe Shanaborough of Army. It is probably the most unpredictable of the events in the Easterns...
...stumbled toward catastrophe, poetry blundered deeper into obscurity and ambiguity, into the talented but precious minutiae of Wallace Stevens and William Empson, whose poems often suggest esthetic scrimshaw, a cathedral carved in a cherry pit. Poetry became a world unto itself, a self-sealing vacuum in which poets engaged in a conspiracy of mutual approval, safe from the embarrassing questions of the bewildered public, safe from what Poet Stefan George called "the indignity of being understood...
...Corps Schools in Quantico, Va., Uelses began training in earnest, determined to break the elusive 16-ft. barrier. He worked each day with weights to strengthen his arm, shoulder and back muscles; each night he drove 50 miles to practice vaulting in the University of Maryland's indoor pit. "I never really had a coach," he says. "I just picked up little technical things by watching other vaulters. I tried everything. What felt good and natural, I kept." By last summer Uelses' dedication began to pay off: he cleared 15 ft. 4¾ in. in the U.S.Russian meet...
...generation of balcony sitters back in the golden age of the movie palace; saccharine with sentiment one moment, it was a hell-for-leather Marine marching band the next, and for many a movie fan, when the Wurlitzer sank out of sight into the bowels of the orchestra pit, the best part of the show was over...