Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either Train or Frazier would win the match for Princeton, and as the Train-Francis contest moved on, the win seemed certain. The Crimson senior took the fourth game 15-7, but slowly, inexorably, Train drew ahead in the fifth...
...that moment, Princeton's Keith Jennings wound up a 15-12, 15-5, 19-7 win ever reliable Johnny Thorndike in the number six match. It was the fourth win of the day for the Tigers and at number eight, John Francis was trailing Princeton's Cuffy Train, two games to one. On the front court, the number four match, with Harvard's erratic Bill Morris facing John Frazier, was just getting under...
Captain Toby Symington, who played number two last year, will be at number three today, with sophomore John Frazier behind him. Another soph, Bert Gay, fills the number five position, with tennis star Keith Jennings at number six, followed by Cuffy Train, Walt Smedley, and Jim Lemons...
...silence is the silence between and within human beings when faith has failed. Pivotal character in the story is the restless, questioning boy Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), who begins his search on the train by pointing to an unintelligible sign and asking, "What does that mean?" No one can say. Later, as he wanders through an endless maze of hotel corridors, his quest and his confusion seem to be Bergman's own. Johan fleetingly finds comfort in make believe with a troupe of performing dwarfs, then with a kindly old waiter. But always, large-eyed and secretive, he observes...
...final scene on the train, Anna and Johan are homeward-bound, and the boy fingers a letter from his aunt. "Words in a foreign language-" begins...