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...decisive events of the New Hampshire primary was the strange spectacle of an angry Ronald Rea gan confronting a flustered George Bush on the stage of the Nashua High School gym, while four other candidates jos tled behind them like hapless losers in a game of musical chairs. When the four stalked out, one of them, Representative John Anderson, summed up the group's protest: "The responsibility for this whole travesty rests with Mr. Bush." Countered Bush's New Hampshire campaign manager, Hugh Gregg, the next day: "We feel we were sandbagged...
Once at the gym, Reagan and the four unscheduled candidates went into an anteroom to decide how to proceed. Bush arrived, knowing nothing of this turn of events. As he approached the dais, he was invited to join the others in the anteroom. He declined, pleading the press of time and thinking he might be walking into a trap. When Reagan finally appeared with the other four and argued for a six-man forum, Moderator Jon Breen, editor of the Telegraph, insisted that the format would not be changed...
Loose and confident, the Harvard players returned to the Payne-Whitney gym the next afternoon ready to surprise league-leading Yale. The Bulldogs were in no mood for fun and games...
...grab me." What does grab Robbins, it seems, is the opportunity to create an entire society onstage through dance. West Side Story and Fiddler both contain dream ballets that tap the subconscious aspirations and nightmares of their respective ethnic enclaves. In West Side Story's Dance at the Gym and Fiddler's Wedding Dance specific social customs and rituals of courtship and marriage are rethought in balletic terms. With its gingerly folk touches and communal feeling, Robbins' ballet masterpiece Dances at a Gathering carries these Broadway dances to their abstract apotheosis; in part it describes the manners...
Although a weak opponent often elicits a weak response, the women's varsity squash team got psyched up Saturday and demolished Middlebury, 6-1, at Hemenway Gym...