Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Merner and the team's captain, epeeman Bill Marshall, attributed the squad's impressive showing to solid performances in all three weapons and strong team support...
...senses these days that the Leverett House Arts Society knows its business. The hallmarks of a growing professionalism are evident from the start: Ushers are casual, handling the doorway crush smoothly, and the programs with their predictably flippant bios and nostalgic senior testimonials evince a comfortable style. The solid walls of the Old Library--one of the few legitimate full-size theaters available to House dramatists--reflect the assurance needed to knit two such diverse shows together and make them work. Small wonder, perhaps, that what happens on stage this weekend echoes such firmness...
...then there is Ryan's sidekick, Loose leaf Harper (Brian Sands), who, we're told, dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Harper represents the daffy nonchalance of a mass murderer. Yet again, the plenitude of Big Themes hurts Wanda June, diverting from solid acting performances Sands, for example, portrays a truly crazy man and provides a refreshing moment of amusement with his string of "I don't know" responses. Vonnegut attempts to satirize the mass murderers of past wars by depicting them as ridiculous klutzes...
...noon the debate was over. Each of 124 Newfaners wrote yes or no on a paper slip and filed up to a pair of white wooden ballot boxes. Soon Houston announced, "94 for and 30 against," to a solid wave of applause...
...selected Halperin for its annual award because of his "very substantive contributions to physics" and his prominance as "one of the dominant solid-state theoreticists in the world," Dean E. Eastman, chairman of the APS's condensed matter physics committee, said yesterday. Eastman described Halperin's award as " one of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious, prize" in condensed matter physics...