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Zorro practiced it to rescue damsels in distress. The Three Musketeers used it to harass the English and French nobility. Douglas Fairbanks made a career out of it. And Thursday night at the IAB 22 swash-buckling swordsmen defended the honor of their respective Houses with the sword in the foil division of the intramural fencing competition...
They did not come along fast enough however, as the Harvard blade brandishers sliced through Baxter's troops like a sword through warm butter. And when Bob Bargar won his second round epee contest, the match was officially Harvard...
...Yale was a very aggressive squad," Leonida Rassenas, who came out on the short end of the sword in her bouts on Saturday, said, "and they thought they'd be able to just slaughter us, so in that light I thought we did very well...
...Orchestra, Vittorio Negri, conductor. 3 LPs; Philips; $23.94). Vivaldi composed his 1716 oratorio for his students at the Ospedale della Pietá. the Venetian orphanage where he taught music. The subject was a bloody one for schoolgirls: after beguiling the barbarian commander with words and wine, Judith seizes his sword and chops off his head. The score is sumptuous, propelled by the Baroque master's typical unflagging vitality. In this recording both male and female solo roles are sung by women. In the part of the servant Abra, the ease and accuracy of Soprano Ameling's clear shining...
Fencer? You mean he spends his time going up and down stairs, sword-fighting, swinging from chandeliers, slicing Z's in the chests of innocent bystanders, and reciting Shakespeare? Why is he a fencer...