Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train was the mighty Slippery Rock State University women's water polo team, which had crusied to four easy--very easy--victories. It beat Ohio State, 16-6, Bucknell, 16-3, Queens...
...stuff before the same footlights that had illuminated the talents of Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight and Michael Jackson. A second and more kindly presence kept urging him to wriggle off the hook. The next stop would be his last chance to walk across the platform and jump the first train home. "Save yourself," the voice said, reminding him yet again that the Wednesday crowd at the Apollo was the meanest, most capricious mob since the days of Nero's circus and the Christian martyrs. Arthur refused to listen, finding within his 22-year-old heart a last, untapped reservoir...
...part of the Winthrop House Literary Series, DelBanco read his soon-to-be-published short story "The Writer's Trade," about Mark Fusco, a young author riding on a train that runs over a woman's body. The event leads to the protagonist's realization that his ambition to write great fiction can trivialize the very situations he depicts in his work...
...other three aquamen will return to competition next season, where they will be joined by Berkoff, last year's NCAA 100 backstroke champion. Currently, Berkoff is taking time off from Harvard to train for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...
...threatening way to train someone toteach," said Mueller. "They can pick up what'swrong and what's right while avoiding frictionwith a supervisor." The self-criticism method hasworked very well, Mueller explained...