Word: squad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kevin Jarre's script makes no direct comment on these matters, and a squad of fine actors ground the film in felt reality: Denzel Washington is a proud and badly misused troublemaker; Driving Miss Daisy's Morgan Freeman a steadying influence; Andre Braugher a Harvard student who finds Emersonian idealism of small help in mastering the bayonet. It is the movie's often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth. Broad, bold, blunt, Glory is everything that a film like Miss Daisy, all nuance...
Following on the heels of the Harvard men's hockey team's critical Saturday meeting with Dartmouth, a squad of Soviet professionals will challenge the Crimson to a long-awaited contest at Bright Arena on Sunday...
...period thanks to strong defense led by junior netminder Gillian D'Souza, who came up with a dozen saves in the period, many of them from point-blank range. But Harvard's defense would not be able to hold up all night, especially considering the fact that the squad was forced to play with only three defenders...
Despite his squad's superior talent, O'Brien took nothing for granted entering the contest...
Remember, the Eagles, starting three freshmen, are not the pride of the Big East this year. Coach Jim O'Brien's squad was not invited to the ACC-Big East showdowns last week because it was ranked last in the league...