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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the score tied 3-3, the varsity proceeded to romp through six bouts in a row. Senior Brian Keidan started the rout with a 5-3 decision over Tom Masterson '45. Steve Shea followed with the first of his two wins in epee, a 5-0 whitewash against Eric Sollee '52, who is normally a sabre man. The third varsity triumph was by Harry Jergesen, who avenged last year's 5-0 loss to Giles Constable '50 with a 5-1 decision...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Varsity Defeats Alumni Fencers | 3/11/1967 | See Source »

...four home teams in the ECAC first round gave up two goals but won last night. Cornell scored the biggest victory, 11-2 over Brown, and Boston College followed with a surprisingly easy 9-2 romp over defending champion Clarkson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECAC Hockey Seeds All Advance | 3/8/1967 | See Source »

Captain Keith Colburn starred in the freshmen's 80-29 romp. The red-haired runner anchored the victorious mile relay team, won the 600 in 1:13.6, and captured the 1000 Yards in the fantastic time of 2:12.2, a freshman and Cage record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Dump Brown | 2/25/1967 | See Source »

...Romp & Stomp. The Danish critics, many of whom were skeptical of upstart Flindt at the outset, agreed that, in a year of forward strides, Mandarin was the grand jete. When Flindt took over, he started straight off to dress up the troupe's traditional repertory and leaven it with new modern works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Royal Flash | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Boldly, he choreographed "total theater," in which a work was not "evaluated solely on the intricacy of its movements but on its overall theatrical impact." His first full-length ballet was a total-theater version of The Three Musketeers, a romp-and-stomp spectacle in which the Danish swashbucklers made Douglas Fairbanks look like a party poop. Later, he enlivened and internationalized his programs with Afternoon of a Faun by America's Jerome Robbins, Card Game by South Africa's John Cranko, Aimez-vous Bach by Canada's Brian MacDonald, and Agon by Denmark's First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Royal Flash | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

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