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Freshmen Per Arne Weiner and Dave Wood finished 34th and 42nd in the giant slalom and Weiner was 30th in the slalom. Senior Bill Kealey came in 44th...
Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Julie Covington) was a young woman of good mind and high spirits when Eliot married her. The poet may even have loved Viv. Surely he loved the England she embodied--sturdy, demanding, eccentric, eloquent, experimenting within a noble tradition--qualiti es that informed his art, if not his personality. As for Viv, she must have been beguiled by the oddity of their coupling, his Jeeves to her Zelda, and by the challenge of unearthing the soul of a poet beneath the manners of a mortician...
...badly burned, some original details remained as clues to the materials Semper had used. The acoustics--vivid and unforced, warm and full-bodied--are a particular triumph. The rebuilt Semper Opera disproves the notion that acoustics are still a hit-or-miss proposition: just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results...
...have done. Rather than fritter away his talent as a bit actor on TV car-chase shows, he all but dropped out for seven years, turning down 90% of the jobs he was offered. With books borrowed from the public library, he learned how to put two pieces of wood together in a presentable fashion and became a carpenter to the stars, affording his wife and two sons a decent if modest living...
...principal aim of the University's house sale is to make a tenure offer more enticing to a prospective faculty member. This is all part of Harvard's overall attempt to make attractive fringe benefits available to counteract the increasing number of tenure rejections it receives. However, small wood frame houses cannot be considered major incentives to incoming faculty. Most professors prefer to live in Watertown or Newton already and have no desire to move their families to Cambridge. If anything, the only incentive is to purchase these rundown structures, perform expensive reconstructions, and resell them a few years later...