Word: swordsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophomore tandem of Eric Mandelbaum and Bob Bargar made a shamble of things in the epee category. Mandelbaum, who switched from foil to epee for the current campaign, annexed three matches with the hard-working desire that has become his trademark. Bargar, a lanky swordsman with an effective reach also grabbed a triple...
...This is partly due to the circumstance that, illiterate in Arabic, a Westerner cannot decipher the inscriptions or savor the interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the writing on an 8th century Koran page: the angular Kufic script done in a swordsman's strokes, decisive and muscular; the rich gold foliations round the white chapter heading; the placement of red dots, fit to make Mondriaan despair. Nevertheless, it is frustrating not to be able to read the page. (In a less exalted context, this becomes an advantage: neon signs never look more...
...described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised in a Zen monastery and reputedly a great swordsman. There could have been very little difference between the reflexes that drove the blade and those that aimed the brush...
...avenge an insult to his wife's honor, so Leone accedes and presses Guido, who also happens to be his good friend, into serving as his second. Guido issues an unconditional challenge, only too slyly aware that the marquis is both a crack pistol shot and a master swordsman. But Leone makes the final move on the chessboard of fate. By the iron rules of the game, the second must fight if the principal, for whatever reason, refuses. Leone refuses. And Guido...
...Crimson swordsman Larry Tu said, "Their epee team is amazing. It was almost a foregone conclusion that they would win all nine epee bouts. We had to make up for it in the foil and the sabre...