Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varied ways as the nation can produce. Their parents may be rich or poor; they may be the sophisticated and city-wise children of New Yorkers or the graduates of tiny schools in rural New Mexico; some are ready to perform on the concert stage while others are superb athletes. What unites them are the values--or at least the judgments--of our selectors: each student must be able to pursue a demanding course of academic studies, and possess a special talent or spark--ranging from something as vague as "leadership qualities" to something as concrete as mathematical ability...
...trio, Chang and Ma, returned for the second half of the program as soloists in the Brahms Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra. Here again, they infused their playing with intensity and drama; although Chang's lower register sometimes tends toward scratchiness, his tone quality is superb, and the intonation problems evident in his solo appearance with HRO last year have largely disappeared. Ma's electric stage presence and romantic approach, meanwhile, provided an ideal vehicle for the concerto and complemented Chang's hard lustre perfectly; he can do things with a cello, as Harvard audiences must recognize...
...Sunday, upset-minded Middlebury shut the Crimson attack down completely, but Seidler turned in another superb effort, and the stickwomen escaped with their second 0-0 deadlock of the year...
Radio Free Yankees. If the second-game loss on an error broke Yankee hearts, the third game crushed them. After a first-inning pickoff, no Yankee base runner so much as leaned toward second base. Pinning the New Yorkers back with superb defense-aided by sloppy Yankee fielding-the Reds ran up a 6-2 win. Another Perez play typified the Reds' call on greatness. With runners on first and second and no outs, Perez made a leaping catch of a rifled line drive. He ignored the easy tag on the runner at first and fired to second...
...things come out perfectly, the score will be 1-0--there will be a single goal towering over the whole season--and the clincher will come on a strange play, the kind nightmares are made of. For example, we could imagine a superb defensive player like Dupuis accidently deflecting a Princeton shot into...