Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With their sixth consecutive triumph over Yale, the Crimson salvaged a fifth place Ivy finish while shoving the Elis into their traditional cellar position...
Senelick's translation from the French is unspeakably good. He has wisely used current Americanisms to give the language the proper effervescense and irreverance. To render the play in early twentieth century American would have been a gray business: nothing is as dead as dead slang. Senelick's greatest triumph is his version of a Spaniard (Daniel Deitch) speaking English. Gerund endings are assiduously dropped where they should be; b's and v's are assaulted with appropriate force...
Radcliffe took fourth place in a two-run slalom at Intervale behind the University of Mass., B.U., and Mt. Holyoke last Sunday. Earlier in the season the team came second at Mad River. This year's only triumph was last Saturday at Wildcat Mountain where Radcliffe hosted and won the Women's Intercollegiate Conference Giant Slalom...
From here, Truffaut goes wrong. He surrenders to Bradbury's too-nifty plot: at the beginning all books were burned; now all will be rescued, in fact, memorized. That's some triumph; it negates the force of the whole movie. Werner had been tending toward humanity. Having turned from a mechanical life to an emotional-life-via-books, he could have turned even further--to real experience. After all, the girl was there. It was she who teased him into realizing he was unhappy and tempted him into reading. (Julie Christie plays both the wife and the tease...
...Harvard hockey team made short work of Yale's over-rated sextet, building a 4-0 lead and finishing with a 7-3 triumph at the Boston Arena Saturday night. Seven different players scored and goalie Bill Diercks shut the Elis out for the first 52 minutes as Harvard began its end-of-season surge into the ECAC playoffs...