Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Hughes initiated the scoring in a game in which Harvard incurred nine penalties and Dartmouth seven. Hughes's tally capped a pressing power play. In classic Harvard style, Captain Brian Cook, planted behind the Dartmouth cage, caught a pass from Purdy and zipped the puck onto Hughes's stick. The All-Ivy center put the Crimson on the scoreboard. The Crimson failed to score on three other power play opportunities in the first period...
...good points in last night's game, because there were many. John Hynes looked nonetheless impressive amidst his rustiness as a Harvard varsity goaltender for the first time. Hynes made 25 saves on the night, and for the latter half of the contest turned aside many with a style seemingly ghost-written by Petrovek...
Kosinski's novels reflect this notion. His writing style exemplifies it; his protagonists characterize...
Most Americans associate racing with either the Indianapolis 500 or Richard Petty and redneck stock car races on Southern oval tracks. Like actors and baseball players, racing enthusiasts are regarded as somewhat declasse. But the Harvard-dominated Medenica team defies all the stereotypes, both in racing style and in personnel. They compete in Formula Ford road racing, on Grand Prix-style courses with single-seat cars equipped with 1600cc. Ford Fiesta motors. While Formula Ford cars can't match the flat-out power of Indy types they still average 90 to 100 mph on twisting, graded courses...
...situation, Michael Herr was lucky, and he knew it. Writing for Esquire meant that he could ignore the canons of establishment journalism; he could forget the official interviews with generals who spouted obvious lies, he could forget the press briefings. Vietnam didn't fit into the regular news style, but it fit Herr's. He was able to write long, first-person essays that were much more likely to capture the reality of the war than descriptions of troop movements. He could relate what the war was like from the troops' point of view, rather than the generals'; he could...