Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene was in sharp contrast with 1964, when a rare air of harmony prevailed and L.B.J.'s ubiquitous aides moved in quickly to muffle any signs of schism. Johnson's men were running things again, in tandem with Daley, but they were far less conspicuous this time?as if they sensed that though they controlled the convention's machinery, they did not control its spirit...
Freudian Mud. In a special way, it was Nureyev's season. He performed at least three nights a week-most often in tandem with Margot Fonteyn, still a ballerina of faultless style at the age of 49. Nureyev also had a hand in the choreography of three productions that the Royal brought with it. The best were derivative-works restaged from the repertory of his former company, Russia's Kirov Ballet. By far the worst was his muddied Freudian version of The Nutcracker, in which Drosselmeyer, with a Humbert-Humbert lurch, is transformed into the prince who pays...
Levin was seeded number one in both singles and doubles. In doubles, however, he and Rocky Jarvis were rudely bumped out of the tournament 6-4, 6-3, by Rick Steketee and Jeff Warner, Amherst's top tandem. Levin and Jarvis had swamped the same Amherst team in a dual match earlier this season. Steketee and Warner eventually won the doubles championship to give Amherst a one point team victory over Harvard...
Levin and Jarvis will be tough to beat in doubles. The juniors from California finished second last year to Hoeveler and Bill Kirkpatrick, Dartmouth's top tandem. Gonzales and Parrot have looked sharp in recent matches and could pull some upsets...
With the match almost out of reach, Harvard's doubles combinations played uninspired tennis. Levin and Jarvis fell to Princeton's number one tandem 6-0, 6-4. Gonzales and Parrot, at two, and Terrell and Sterne at three, bowed in short order...