Word: pre-fight
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...possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some unconvincing, garrulous pre-fight speeches by the matador). Add to this a number of much mouthed moralizations on the art and significance of bullfighting and you have a long story which can easily be skipped...
Capping a six-week competition that started the Tuesday after the Pre-Fight game, Theodore G. Kane '46 of Greenwich, Conn. and Eliot House was elected yesterday to head a five-man Freshman managerial staff that will run the Jayvee squad through the Yale game to New Haven...