Word: fencer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dissolving & Sounding. The difference in vibration rate creates a variety of shapes, whose momentary and only semivisible quality makes the observer look sharp, as they shift, change, swell to a musiclike crescendo, and subside to quiescence. One Tangible resembles a fencer's foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion...
...England Intercollegiates held at the University of Connecticut, meanwhile, varsity fencer Jim Roberts became the New England epee champion by beating Brandeis' Mark Friedman 5 to 0 in a fence-off after both had complied 11-3 records...
Captain Bill Trebileock was the outstanding fencer for the varsity with victories in all three of his foil matches. Manual Cabral led the sabremen, winning two out of three bouts, which equalized his showing against Cornell earlier in the season...
...three sports, the fencers are in the best financial position, having received a gift in excess of $40,000 from a former Crimson fencer. Presumably, they will use the income from this gift to defray expenses...
Bruce Parker and Dave Schwartz, who have gained much experience this season, will also fence epee for Harvard. Dick Johnson, a regular foil fencer, will be in reserve...