Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ironically, Doyle faced the stiffest challenge at the single-handeds from his brother Richie, an All-American at Notre Dame and the 1970 College Sailor of the Year...
...Robbie is aggressive enough to be a good sailor, and he has the confidence," Harvard sailing coach Mike Horn said last night. "These are the two things it takes to win; you just can't go out and round the buoys," he added...
...addition to two crowded seasons of sailing each year, Robbie sails constantly during the summer. This summer he sailed in three classes in the open North American Championships. He became the first college sailor to win the open single-handed championships; he crewed for the winner in the Soling class; and sailing in a tempest for the first time he crewed for a friend, and the two took second in that class...
Like Lane, English-born Thomas Birch also delighted in painting harbors and coasts. Brought to America in 1794 when he was only fifteen, Birch settled in Philadelphia and immediately went to work with his father, an accomplished engraver and painter of enamels. Although he was never a sailor. Birch had a profound feeling for the structure and beauty of ships. In a View of the Harbor of Philadelphia from the Delaware River, Birch shows that he understood even better the element they travel in. Although his seascapes varied -some being stormy and violent-this harbor view is marked...
...Sailor." The word comes across like "freak." or "nigger"-"The only possible advantage in being a sailor," said Seaman Fred Eder, "is that it's maybe the only way a white can experience something of what it's like being black. In uniform, you're a marked dude. You're prey to all sorts of people trying to fuck you out of a dollar or your watch or your sanity for Christ sake. You can't eat in a good restaurant, no decent-looking chick will talk to you. Man, you find yourself on even ground with all the other...