Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, it is different--and why should it not be? At the end of his career Shakespeare turned to the novel genre of the tragicomic romance, and in four related works--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest--explored the theme of intrafamilial separation, repentance, and reconciliation. The first two, with their intentional artlessness, are not wholly successful. Received opinion at last has acknowledged The Tempest a masterpiece, but the battle for The Winter's Tale is far from...
...pace is not an easy one to keep up with, even if it is only every four years. This year, the serious Tempest competitors will have spent from $10,000 to $15,000 and thousands of hours on the water and in the sail-loft by the time the trials are over...
...finale, he chose Berg as his crew. Berg has the size required to sail the Tempest, which has a relatively ineffective keel and a large sail area of 247.6 square feet, making the job of keeping the boat flat in heavy air suited to a big crew. Berg is 6 ft., 3 in. and weighs 230 pounds. "And I could go up another 15 pounds for the trials," he adds...
...Conner, though maybe a bit extreme, is certainly not atypical of the Tempest competition. "You really have to be dedicated," Berg commented. "It's a lot of money and aggravation, my parents have been bitching at me because I'm screwing up my studies. But it's worth...
Apparently so, or there wouldn't be so many people like Schoettle or Connor or the Linvilles (who have been a team for seven years) or '72 gold medal winner Foster, or Argyle Campbell, or Bill Cox Jr., or any of the other dedicated combatants in the Tempest class...