Word: swordsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Centuries shuttled back and forth last week on NBC. Italian truck drivers be came Roman legionnaires; butchers were metamorphosed Into gladiators (one burly swordsman was nearly reduced to tears When he got a scratched ear); a woman switched from modern bourgeois matron to sadistic Messalina. These time-machine gambols took place on Fellini: A Director's Notebook, one program in the NBC series called "Experiment in Television" that had managed to escape from the usual Sunday-afternoon intellectual ghetto to prime time...
Harvard is strong in the epee and sabre but has had trouble in its early meets with the foil. In weekend victories against Rutgers and Princeton, however, strong foil performances proved key factors in determining the meet's outcomes. Foil swordsman Tom Keller swept four of his five contests over the weekend while Cliff Ruderman's win over the Tiger's second foil gave Harvard the margin of victory against Princeton...
Keller, the much heralded swordsman who was undefeated as a freshman, lost one of his bouts and came close to dropping another. Keller seemed nervous in his first varsity appearance and lost his first match 5-1. He nearly dropped the second but rallied to win 5-4. He seemed tight and lacked the easy grace which carried him last year...
...only other Harvard swordsman who won more than half his bouts was Steve Shea, taking five of nine against third men in epee...
...second team all-Ivy swordsman, junior Steve Shea is a consistent fencer with several years of pre-Harvard epee competition in New York. Shea has taken the first spot from junior Harry Jergesen, an all-Ivy first team selection who "isn't practicing this year," according to Coach Marion...