Word: talented
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...unlike either of the past two games, Harvard can ill afford to let up either emotionally or physically tonight. New Hampshire still has enough talent remaining to pose a serious threat during any Harvard lapses, and the raucous denizens of Snively Arena will not let the Wildcats forget...
Theoretically, the proposal is intended to reopen American college hockey as a means of developing. American talent for the professional leagues. Canadian performers have the Junior leagues to provide the necessary preparatory channel. Americans have ... American college hockey. And, argues the NCAA, Canadian imports are choking off that channel in the United States...
...number of Eastern colleges that depend heavily upon Canadian talent is only a handful, but the extent to which they depend upon it, and the success with which they have been able to dominate Eastern hockey since the mid-60's is incredible...
Quite obviously, such tactics, in an effort to acquire Canadian rosters, and hence, powerhouse teams, are against the unwritten spirit of American college hockey. And if the NCAA hockey committee had submitted its proposal in order to correct it, rather than for the stated reason of redeveloping American talent, its motives would be less open to conjecture...
...sure enough, when I asked people later they could have sworn they heard calypso. Most disappointing about this particular song, and most of Jagger's vocal performance for that matter, was the absence, up until "Satisfaction," of any vocal improvisation. Much of the Stones' dynamic relies on Jagger's talent for splintering and then remaking the vocal line, a technique he borrowed from soul music and worked to perfection in masterpieces like "Goin' Home." Jagger wasn't having any of it, for two possible reasons: one, that the audience was already completely zonked on their own Stones' trip...