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Some scholars hear in fados "the sweet crying" of African slave songs or Gregorian chants. By the 18th century, Portuguese sailors were singing the sad songs to prostitutes, who sang them to aristocrats and other opinion makers. The first great fadista was Maria Severa, a gypsy prostitute who sang in a low-life casa do fado in the 1830s. She devoted her 26 dissolute years to bed and bullfights, wine and fado, and her legend is so much with the Portuguese that fadistas still wear black shawls in mourning...
...swimmer's head), pattern plays and calisthenics. Sample exercise: the "frog kick, scissors, and go," a darting, leaping movement designed to get the jump on the opposing team in a fast break. "We don't spend two minutes teaching any rough stuff," said Lynwood Captain Ron Severa. "The players learn it anyway. It's self-preservation, you know." Such tactics paid off. In the finals, Lynwood slipped past the Olympic Club, 8-7, won the A.A.U. championships without the loss of a single game...
...intermission of the Winthrop House dance after the UMass game last fall, Holly Carleton '59 was chosen Miss Radcliffe from a group of five finalists including Anne Baker, Elizabeth Borden, Cynthia Carmichael, and Mary Lou Severa...
Crimson A and B squads spent a full hour trying out various defenses against a Yardling eleven which operated from Buff Donelli's winged-T formation. Severa! sizable gains, two for apparent touchdowns, indicated the need for more practice against Boston University plays...
...night. Men, women & children are likely to relieve themselves on any street-except the main street. The streets and roads are so bad that when anyone travels any distance in and around Archangel in a car, it is news and is reported as such. Pravda Severa, published in Archangel, carried an item about a doughty citizen who drove for six versts (four miles) with his entire family to attend a local celebration. He has my deepest respect...