Word: sextets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of All-Americans normally includes 12 Division 1 players, including a sextet from the ECAC and six skaters from the two Western leagues. In theory, then, the All-ECAC first team and the Eastern All-Americans should be identical...
...SEXTET, John Malcolm Brinnin fuses six distinct portraits into an intricate work, closer to a fragmented fiction than to a fractured reality. Chosen from among the noted and notable of two overlapping intellectual eras, his subjects resemble characters from a diffuse and impressionistic novel. Brinnin has captured them, not at their peak, but in their moments of ascent or descent, grasping or clutching, and always searching...
Spanning nearly two decades, Sextet, compiled from diary entries, letters and reminiscences, focuses on Truman Capote, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elizabeth Bowen, Alice B. Toklas, the Sitwells, and T.S. Eliot. The most comprehensive study, The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect, begins with the first meeting between Capote and Brinnin, in Yaddo during the summer of 1947. Fascinated by this small man-child from Alabama, Brinnin scrupulously details Capote's erratic life through the conception of In Cold Blood...
...Phil Atkinson and Dave Guerra, both All-New England selections, at a Long Beach State training camp for the last weeks of the summer. Senior co-captains, Houston Hall, Harvard's leading goal scorer, and Rich "The Wall" Reid, 2nd Team All-New England goalie, round out the starting sextet...
...ECAC season in turmoil with 11 players missing a home-ice, 8-1 disaster against B.U. because of curfew violations; a team that at one point played eight games without a win and owned a 3-7-1 record at the new year, closed its campaign as the finest sextet in the region...