Word: raft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although eight rules existed for the raft race, many of them fell by the riverside...
...lids blew off the academic pressure cooker Saturday afternoon as hundreds of rafters and sun-bathers abandoned their books to experience the 13th annual Adams House Raft Race, between the Anderson and Weeks Bridges...
...official "loser" the first place raft, because victory goes to the second place craft--was the Mather House crew, sporting a half-ton structure that was the result of three months of planning...
...Halley, Jr. is superb as Jim, the runaway slave trying to raft his way into a free state. Jim's character is the only one that is developed beyond the two-dimensionality of the others. Resisting the temptation to condescend to his role or to the audience, Halley portrays a multi-faceted, complex character who is childlike and wise at once, evoking pathos without fishing for it. Were Huck as carefully developed and convincingly acted as Jim, the different episodes of the play would assume the coherence and interest that the production occasionally lacks...
...Last year it was a complete zoo," agreed Joseph P. DiNunzio '84, designer of the Adams House raft. "If we allowed it to go on this year escalating like it did, we would not have been able to hold it next year," he added...