Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season games, the Bruins defeated Army, Connecticut, and Long Island University. All three teams are playing in the N.C.A.A. playoffs which began yesterday. Army is expected to continue to the semi-finals in Berkeley, California on December...
...winning play is based on the unlikely life-story of Jim Fisk, whose remarkable coups in the world of finance culminated in his death-by-duel in 1876. Prince Erie will be the first musical (or semi-musical) to win the Anderson award...
Under the leadership of Daniel Seltzer, then acting director of the Loeb, the Shakespeare Festival had brought in a whole new group of undergraduates, relegating the old club of entrenched semi-professionals to minor roles and inbred cocktail parties. Seltzer had passed the torch from one generation to another, and the older crowd wasn't having any of it. They talked behind his back, mailed hastily drafted protest letters to the Crimson, thought about or actually wrote works of vengeance like The Pageant of the Beasts...
...effect. It is a rough spectrum of colored flats that are organized into two sets. But the realistic furniture and the intrusive, mammoth Lowell House chandelier make it seem out of place. It would have been funnier, and more striking to have maintained a single convention, constructing a semi-realistic room that would have incorporated the chandelier into a monstrous parody of the traditional...
...unmaking had its unbeginning when elegantly eloquent Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. got to thinking seriously about one of his "semi-jocular" newspaper columns, in which he had "vouchsafed a paradigmatic platform, theoretically useful in any large-size American city." From there, it was no more than a few thousand syllables into the 1965 New York mayoralty campaign as the Conservative Party contestant against Republican-Liberal John V. Lindsay and Democrat Abraham Beame...