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Colleagues and students in the History department said that despite his illness, Gienapp’s death came as a surprise.
“It sounds lame,” Andrew P. Bialecki ’07 said when informed of the planned dance. “But, then again, it’s Yale, so no surprise.”
It began in 1987, when Lillian Disney, Walt's widow, provided a surprise gift of $50 million to build a new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which for years had been unhappily stashed in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a slab of '60s-style bureaucratic neoclassicism with mediocre acoustics. The...
King wondered whether Bush’s surprise at negative perceptions of the U.S. abroad was feigned and meant to be humorous, but Jones said, “I don’t think he has that sense of humor.”
Part of the reason for surprise was the absence of senior forwards Tim Pettit and Rob Fried, both of whom sat out the game as a precaution after sustaining minor injuries in practice. Mazzoleni indicated that Pettit would likely have played had it been a regular-season game, and said...