Word: rend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Harvard men's fencing team set off for the NCAA Championships in South Rend. Indiana earlier this week, they expected to improve in last year's score. For one thing, they were going with a complete three-man team, after mustering only two fencers for the 1981 event. For another, Sabreman Dave Heyman had captured All-American honors in his first attempt and was returning for a second shot...
...from all sorrow. But she has a priority: vengeance. Before the final curtain, Polymestor lurches forward on all fours, his eye sockets craters of streaming blood. He utters the primal howl that punctuates these plays. It is the moment when all reason has toppled and the dogs of fate rend man with total indifference. In Shakespeare's words, "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." And the sport has not finished...