Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Berti as Sir Eglamour, the bit part knight who helps Silvia escape in Act V. He leaps on stage wearing silver boots, a white cape, silver leggings and a white tunic with a heraldic device on the front. Shazzam! It's Disco Superman! The house howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism. Lacey apparently decided to cast...
Desaulniers' succession to the Hemenway Gym throne merits a word or two on his predecessor, John Havens. The power-hitting, loose-playing Arnie Palmer of squash gave the Harvard team a character of its own and left his mark on the Ivy League. During his sometimes-brilliant, often-frustrating four-year Crimson career, Havens tasted both glory and defeat. After an outstanding freshman year on the '75-'76 national title team, Havens met with some bad luck when the high priests of collegiate racqueteering decided to change the composition of the official squash ball. The new softer spheroid left...
Fish's second option is to do as the Princetonians do and start recruiting. Unfortunately, the word "recruit," like the word "politics," carries the stench of corruption and illegality no matter what the context. But, in its most benign form, all it really involves is telling the squash-playing applicant "We really want you to come here, because you'll fit right into the program..." That kind of prodding doesn't mean Hemenway will be populated by intellectual zombies majoring in animal husbandry, but only that the top high school players might decide to play for the Crimson rather than...
...clear that he would urge approval. Though it was past midnight in Cairo, Carter telephoned Sadat to report the encouraging developments. Despite Begin's endorsement, the Israeli Cabinet approved the U.S. proposals by only a thin majority: nine in favor, three opposing and four abstaining. When he got word of the vote, Carter again called Sadat, this time to tell him of his idea of flying to the Middle East. Said Carter: "I'd like to come over with these suggestions. They're not going to be exactly what you want, but I believe they take into consideration your concerns...
...century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received the 4½-sq.-mi. island as a gift from the Crown and have watched over it ever since. But from Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots who fear that uncaring foreigners might buy the island or that developers might transform its 2,000 acres of windswept pastures into a tacky tourist mecca...