Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game Harvard could have won. Crimson shooting was reasonably accurate and the rebounding was pretty good at times. Nonetheless, the Crimson obstinately refused to settle down and play deliberate, careful basketball, and consequently made enough foolish mistakes to give the the smooth-moving Tigers the game...
...only event of the program that was even moderately exciting was the 440 yard freestyle. Sophomore Harry Turner easily walked off with first place in a time of 4:44.8. But the race for runner-up honors was close all the way. Junior Steve Seagren kept a smooth, steady pace about two yards behind Columbia captain John Modell for the first fourteen laps of the gruelling event...
...very fast ball club with smooth ball handlers and great passing accuracy, Yale can be expected to use short jumps and slants against the Crimson's switching man-to-man defense. Wilson has been putting in extra time this week on defense in an effort to control the Yalie speedsters...
...sure he is using only one instrument. In Diaz's hands, the guitar becomes an organ with a hundred stops--but infinitely more expressive. At one point it sounds like a harpsichord; at another, like a carillon, or like a piano. In melodic passages Diaz's shifts were so smooth and his vibrato so intense that the tone was violin-like. During a Villa-Lobos dance his forceful, resonant bass had a brass quality. Such versatility would in itself distinguish his playing; the remarkable thing is that Mr. Diaz is able to shift moods instantaneously, and sustain two different timbres...
...Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut discipline of a scholarly musical mind...