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...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Class of '89: One of the Best Ever | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Waugh's Guy Crouchback or Charles Ryder might have had such plaintive thoughts about their ignoble times. Wilson interjects such commentary to underscore the point that the assemblages of traits and mannerisms that are his characters are too confused or corrupt for weighty contemplation. Wilson is forbearing about the sins of the flesh, while the transgressions against reason are greeted with disdain. Conservative authority is the secret hero of this book; hapless liberalism and its freebooting institutions are the goats. The result is a sharp irony concisely expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Misanthrope | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...also ensured artistic success by relying on the talents of Jeremy Irons, best known as Charles Ryder in the PBS production of Brideshead Revisited. Playing a neurotic isn't easy, but playing him in another language is a real test of skill. To be sure, in the version released in France, Irons' voice was dubbed in, but the American version displays Irons speaking a remarkably fluent French. His accent only adds to Swann's vaguely foreign origins...

Author: By Nadine F. Pinede, | Title: Swann Song | 10/12/1984 | See Source »

...just so my technique can dazzle the audience. In fact, I relieve that they are moved by the strucyure of the work, not by an actor going through hoops and dancing on high wires." They are indeed moved. With his slim, saturnine good looks, Irons (best known as Charles Ryder in Brideshead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stoppard in the Name of Love | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...bill calling for such compensation has been dormant in the House since it was introduced four years ago by Rep. Joe De Nucci (D-Newton) on the urging of Northeastern President Kenneth Ryder and Newton Mayor Ted Mann...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: State Aid Weighed for College Cities | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

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