Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Hootstein the biggest threat in the lineup may be junior Carter Lord -- star end on the Ivy League football co-champions. Last year as a pinchhitter, Lord slugged two homers and scored a solid .278 average...
...ideal salesman looks honest and talks persuasively and sincerely. An engaging smile, solid handshake, confident tone, and eye-to-eye delivery are the usual tools. If his conversation tends to be folksy without too much familiarity, it is all the better. And if he knows a few well-worn yarns and catchy cliches, why that, too, comes in handy...
Back from last year's varsity to fill supporting roles are senior Larry Melfa and junior Tom Menzel. Melfa has never been a starter, but Sheperd says he "looks solid this season and might help." Sophomore prospects are giant fireballer Ray Peters. -- 6'3" and 215 pounds -- and Bob Dowart...
Charles Ives--Yale man, insurance salesman, transcendentalist, composer--surely one of the most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German academic tradition, he was steeped in Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, as well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel tunes, and "sentimental drawing-room ballads" of late nineteenth-century America. Yet Ives was a composer far ahead of his time, employing radical devices such as polytonality, metrical modulation and tone clusters long before they appeared in the European musical spotlight...
...Crucible marks the debut of the Dudley House Drama Society. It is flawed and uneven, but on the whole, Finch and his determined cast have put on a solid straightforward production of a good play...