Word: stalwarts
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...Loeb Experimental Theater merely basks in the glory of its larger sibling through the shared Loeb name. But the Leverett Old Library clearly reflects its stalwart, solid position in the rankings. Most of us know where Leverett is, after all (always a plus when choosing a theater space). And the image of an "Old Library" conjures up its exact reputation as a fine but slightly aged location. But will a library always be more valuable to Harvard students than a place of recreational sport? For some, Leverett Old Library outranks the Adams House Pool Theater. After all, the latter lacks...
...when the opportunity presented itself, I decided to give it a whirl. And I lived to tell about it--that is, rave about it. Of our eight person party, only four were stalwart enough to sign up (and pay the $100 it cost). At around 7:30 p.m. we set out in the back of a rickety pickup truck for a 45-minute drive to the top of a 6,500-foot mountain on a dirt road exactly the width of the truck's wheel-base. As the non-English speaking driver shifted into lower and lower gear...
...everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions. It offers a stalwart hero and a sneering villain, bloody battles and daring rescues, tender love, heedless cruelty and, above all, scores of attractive human beings who have pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a desperate but noble cause...
...clock ticking. He was legendary for his marathon negotiating sessions and infuriating intransigence. But it was his actions that so befuddled American leaders. Syria helped lead the 1973 Yom Kippur War against Israel; in 1976, it marched into Lebanon and never left. Assad's Syria has been a stalwart of the State Department's terrorism list since its inception in 1979--but it was also part of the anti-Iraq coalition that fought in the Gulf...
...Egelhoff, a distance ace and defensive stalwart at two-guard, was often called upon in clutch situations to put in a three. In a game at Yale Feb. 19 that ultimately went into overtime before Harvard won, she hit her first five three-point attempts...