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...played well", captain Muscatine said after the match, "considering the psychological letdown we might have had coming off our win over unbeaten Brown on Saturday". In their quest to notch the first undefeated season for Radcliffe tennis in a long time, the women will play their final team match next Monday against a solid Wheaton squad...
...three," Marion said after the completion of the opening day's competition. "But in epee all Harvard's fencers choked up in the first three rounds where we lost eight out of nine bouts. We would have finished second behind NYU, if we hadn't had that letdown in the first three rounds...
...cross country, Paul Finnegan was disappointed with his 21st-place finish, but Carter cited a training letdown immediately following exams and an unexpectedly heavy tracking through deep new snow as mitigating factors...
...just a hair from being a really good team" is how Cleary sees it. "All of our problems have come when we've been ahead. There's been a little bit of a letdown," he said...
...right to expect fine detail from Mies, and the Houston museum is no letdown; every junction is the vehicle of his meticulousness, proclaiming that a millimeter's change in the thickness of a mullion flange would read as a loss. The ground-floor film and lecture theater, with its black seats and dark teak rear wall, is a jewel of sober, lucid design. But on the large scale, all this is lost. Apart from the Houston Astrodome, one could barely imagine a less sympathetic space for showing art than Mies' vast curving hall, longer than a football field...