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...SWIMMER SUNK...
...ideas) and then the leader let the two bassists have a long dialogue that was the evening's highlight. As they exchanged four-measure, then two-measure phrases, it seemed like McBride was supplying the rhythmic intensity for both bassists. He was like a champion swimmer who breaks the record swimming with one arms while carrying a floundering swimmer in the other. Thomas grew exasperated trying to match McBride's brilliance, and he wittily "gave up" after a particularly difficult flourish, playing four discordant quarter notes and making eyes at the audience. With his typical good humor, McBride first annihilated...
...most dramatic proof of his theory, says Seligman, came at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, after U.S. swimmer Matt Biondi turned in two disappointing performances in his first two races. Before the Games, Biondi had been favored to win seven golds--as Mark Spitz had done 16 years earlier. After those first two races, most commentators thought Biondi would be unable to recover from his setback. Not Seligman. He had given some members of the U.S swim team a version of his optimism test before the races; it showed that Biondi possessed an extraordinarily upbeat attitude. Rather...
Kory is a three-time recipient of Harvard's annual Most Outstanding Swimmer Award...
...there are more, who went unrecognized by their respective selection committees but made substantial contributions: softball's Tasha Cupp blasted onto the Ivy League scene, quickly becoming one of the Ancient Eight's top pitchers; swimmer Brian Younger won the high-point award at the Eastern Sprints in his first year of competition; diver Lara Jacobson placed second at Easterns and earned a U.S. Olympic team try-out with a sixth-place finish at the Mobile Diving meet; potent Mike Ferrucci waited just eight seconds into the lacrosse season before notching his first goal...