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Harvard's saber-swordsmen broke a 9-9 deadlock with three consecutive vitories to open the third round, then the epee and foil teams withstood a determined MIT comeback, as the Crimson humbled their competitors from the trade school down the river, 15-12, at the IAB last evening...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Swordsmen Skewer Engineers As Sabre, Epee Teams Shine | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...most of whose names have perished) devised a kind of visual equivalent to the long social descriptions in Victorian novels. What the genre screens lack in iconic profundity, they make up for in their beguiling chatter of incident and their unfailing decorative sense. Priests, archers, race jockeys, carpenters, nobles, swordsmen, dancing girls, cooks, vegetable sellers, water carriers, lackeys, Kabuki actors, fishermen-the cast of characters is wide, embracing most of the classes and occupations in Japanese society-seen from the detached eyeline of upper-class patronage. The intimations of sympathy with underdogs that occasionally crop up in European genre painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Figures on the Wide Screen | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter is not the only person to have been re-born recently. The second birth of foil fencer Gene Vastola led the Harvard swordsmen over Columbia, 15-12, Saturday at the IAB, in the Crimson's last dual meet of the season...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Fencers Silence Lions' Roar, Win 15-12 as Vastola Stars | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Despite the one-sided score, the Crimson swordsmen did credit to themselves against a side that included two junior Olympians, an epeeman who finished sixth in the last U.S. men's Olympic trials, and five or six fencers who will undoubtedly receive all-Ivy honors...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Unbeaten Penn Dices Swordsmen, 18-9 | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's other fencers found it impossible to keep pace with Penn's talented swordsmen. Sabreman Richard Gillette lost all of his bouts, but in the words of Coach Ben Zivkovic he was "robbed of his first bout" by the director...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Unbeaten Penn Dices Swordsmen, 18-9 | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

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