Word: romps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Experience of Things. Cage patterned six of the harpsichord solos after a 200-year-old romp known as Dice Music. Attributed to Mozart, who liked a joke as much as anyone else, Dice Music consists of a waltz theme and a set of variations that are determined in a Cage-like manner, by rolling dice. In Hpschd, Cage embroidered the variations with snippets from works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Gottschalk, Busoni-even Cage. Each player had seven 20-minute chunks of music to choose from. Once having played, he was free to chat for a while with the listeners...
Holy Cross is the antithesis of a lacrosse power. Last year the Crusaders won only two of 11 games, allowing their opponents an average of 17 goals each game. Harvard has won all of its ten games with Holy Cross, including a 23-2 romp last spring. The Crusaders would have to be rated underdogs in today's match...
Harvard began to move and pulled ahead and then walked away from Columbia to win by 20 seconds in 6:07.2. The Crimson, as well as the Lions, 6:25.1, two seconds slower than the junior varsity, in its seven-length romp over Columbia's crew in the first race of the afternoon for Harvard...
Cornell jumped out to an early lead in the first period with two goals in a 52-second span, delighting the cheering sections of Ithacan rooters. But the game did not develop into a romp as the Big Red drew four penalties in the opening period and lost the edge...
Parked near by was a huge blue and silver trailer always ready to roll off for a royal romp. Saud was accompanied in exile by a fleet of flashy cars, 20 chauffeurs and an entourage that occupied 60 of the hotel's 72 rooms at a monthly rate of nearly $67,000. He was as wealthy as any king need be, and wealthier than almost any are these days. Reasonably accurate guesses pegged his bank balance at some $600 million, drawn from royalties on the oil that has been gushing for years from beneath the golden sands of Saudi...