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Boston College closed the gap to three twice in the third stanza--but never threatened to pull away...
Dutchmen sophomore goalie Mike Gallant (one of Union's three goalies from Ontario) kept his team in it the whole way, stopping 38 shots, 17 in the third stanza...
Harvard did hold its own in the first stanza, despite the game's frenetic pace. After pinning the Crimson deep in its zone for much of the early going, the Providence defense began make some mistakes. Sophomore Winkie Mleczko flicked a wrist-shot into the pack in front of the net. After a wild flurry of slashing at the puck, sophomore Diana Clark corralled the puck and stuffed it past Friar goalie Gina Martinello with 2:28 remaining in the first period...
Ashbery's style reflects the situations of his eternal travelers: his sentences wind their way around line and stanza breaks, often avoiding consistent, literal reference, turning the normal finalities or fixedness of cliches and buzzwords into things entirely strange. The poems are always about identifiable states of mind, but scenes and referents often shift, vanish or blur to better reflect the minds which contain them...
These lines (from the final stanza of "It Must Be Sophisticated") blend the anxiety of the poet (will my work ultimately do anything new?) with the anxiety of the reader: have I, in this text, discovered anything...