Word: vic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irony of the House's dilemma was reflected when Rep. Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), a pay raise defender, introduced the resolution to reject the increase--but voted against the resolution...
Davies juggles these plots with consistent good humor and remarkable insider erudition. The latter should come as no surprise, given the author's extensive background in the theater and academe; as a young man he was an actor in Britain's Old Vic Company, and he later served 20 years as the master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. The novel is crammed with funny renditions of wheezy professorial badinage and flamboyant dramatic monologues. But it is Davies' own voice that seems most memorable: confident, unhurried, interested and amused. Late in the novel, on the brink...
...Vic Gatto...
...Vic Gatto was the captain of the 1968 Harvard football team. Gatto, now the coach at Davidson University in Davidson, N.C., remembers The Game not for its plays, not even for Harvard's dramatic comeback--the Crimson scored 16 points in 42 seconds to tie the score--but for the spirit that enveloped the team. An indefinable feeling. A restless excitement. A unity...
...Vic Gatto ran for 76 yards to earn the all-time Harvard rushing title and scored a touchdown against a strong Big Red defensive unit to give the Crimson a 10-0 shutout over Cornell at The Stadium...