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Founded and sponsored by Oil Heiress Rebekah Harkness, a longtime ballet buff, the company offers ensemble work of high sheen, which is now expected on the American scene, along with dynamic soloistic virtuosity, which is not. Of the 18 works in its repertory only one (a restaging by Director Brian Macdonald of The Firebird) ranks as a classic standby. The other 17 range from abstract studies in pure motion to dance translations of contemporary headlines. In Stuart Hodes' Abyss, a pair of fragile lovers are attacked by three hoodlums; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a Dead...
...never read any of the books," says Yale Quarterback Brian Dowling, 20. "But from what I understand, Frank Merriwell was quite...
...basketball team. Who would turn out for tennis, win his first two matches, and quit because his game was "not too good." Who would then suit up for baseball and drive in the winning run in his first game. In other words, Frank Merriwell was a kind of fictional Brian Dowling...
...football player so captured the public fancy as has Dowling, a 6-ft. 2-in., 195-lb. junior from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who turned down 100 scholarship offers to go to Yale-because, as his father put it: "Why go cabin class when you can go first class?" With Brian at quarterback, says a teammate, "You never know what's going to happen-but you know that you're not going to lose...
Five Straight. A broken wrist sidelined Dowling for the first two games this season; Yale lost one to Holy Cross 26-14, barely squeaked past Connecticut 14-6 in the other. Since then, with Brian, the Bulldogs have rattled off five straight lopsided victories-beating Brown (35-0), Columbia (21-7), Cornell (41-7), Dartmouth (56-15), and Pennsylvania (44-22) to stamp themselves as one of the top teams in the East...