Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Villanova, the University of Texas at El Paso, Pitt, host William and Mary, and perhaps some western teams are expected to be the best teams along with Harvard. A top-five finish in such a field will require a superb Crimson effort...
Last week the steeply rising price of staying in the competition was underscored by a British government rescue operation to save Rolls-Royce, the company famed for its costly cars ($22,000 and up in the U.S.) and superb aircraft engines. Rolls-Royce is building the engines for Lockheed's TriStar and has already received $113 million in British government aid toward the power plant. That amount did not match the engineering costs, which are running twice as high as estimates made two years ago. Amid gasps of shock in the House of Commons last week, the Tory government...
...Niska, singing her twelfth role with the New York City Opera, was almost up to her demanding role. Niska's voice is bright and well cultivated rather than monumental, but at her best she left no doubt what Janáček had in mind. She is a superb actress who lacks only a measure of grandeur to suggest a woman doddering under the weight of three centuries of Weltschrnerz. But then, by the opera's standards, she is still three centuries or so too young for the part...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her slightly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb, the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
...Creedence Clearwater Revival, and its monosyllabic, root-heavy style is powerful. One of the two best tracks is That's The Way, whose rich harmonies are a perfect match for the somewhat surreal lyrics about adolescent alienation. The other is Since I've Been Loving You, a superb slow-blues song that has more togetherness than a revival meeting...