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...other highlight of the visit was a tape the group had played during the intermission. It featured piercing guitar feedback and cavernous waves of applause. For twenty minutes. Barren of thought, grating, annoying--and after a while maddening. Nietzsche once wrote. "The voice of disappointment: I listened for an echo; but heard nothing but praise...
...that afternoon, Harvard played without its number one, and eight men successfully advanced a position. The highlight of the match was Dave Fish, at that time unrecognized, in his victory over Pelletier, a ranking player...
Victory was expected against Army, but the highlight of the match was the performance of the Crimson's new number three and four and the strong showing of the new sophomore starters...
...even less comfortable to be Champagne Chuck Stewart '69. Stewart and a very blonde girl had driven all the way from Golf, Illinois to be present for the highlight of the New Haven social season, and it was highly unrewarding for him to stand at the bar, deep in the bowels of the DKE fraternity house, and write out a check for a hundred dollars...
Take for instance the highlight of the evening's card, the steel cage match between Jimmy Valiant and Pedro Morales. Pedro is a good wrestler, and the fans love him. But Valiant let him walk away with the match. (In case there are some of you who aren't afficianados of the sport, a steel cage match consists of locking two wrestlers into a steel cage and awarding the bout to the one who gets out firs.) Pedro gave Valiant a good solid kick, and Valiant just lay there and let Pedro escape from the cage. He wasn't even...