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...Crimson actually won the race at this point, for by staying ahead of Syra- cuse while still being overstroked, the varsity had the stamina left at the end to hold off the Orange's power finish. Syracuse was clocked at 8:49, a scant .6 behind the varsity. M.I.T. trailed by three lengths with B.U. another two lengths behind...
...experimental tree--they depended for much of their effect on playing with words. The difficulties and advantages of Joyce's style are familiar enough; the Tardieu play exploited not the possibilities of puns, but of the musical ecects which can be extracted from the sound of words with scant regard paid to their meaning...
...they are still catching up with the steep rises of food and manufactured-goods prices in 1945-52. But partly-and more significantly, in a long-range view-because productivity rises more slowly in the service field than in manufacturing. The assembly line is missing, the possibilities of automation scant; machinery can do little to speed up the output of the barber, the bartender, the cop, or the bureaucrat. Yet, in order to hold workers in a period of full employment, the service field has to. raise wages as industrial wages rise. And the result of higher wages without higher...
Even the two Yale wins were hardly decisive. Both were 4 to 3 decisions gained on scant time advantage. Joe Noble at 147 held Eli captain Phil Hepner even, but Hepner escaped from the bottom position faster than did Noble, and picked up a minute, 35 second time advantage...
...Rolf Gerard provided the principal ladies with frothy, subtle-hued dresses scarcely calculated to deliver a message even to the most lickerish-eyed boulevardier. As for Soprano Tebaldi, although she had attempted to follow the heroic Callas diet example ("I lose 25 pound in three year!"), she still bore scant resemblance to a fragile and tuberculous Violetta. But the singing made up for all the production's visual defects. From the richly ornamented outpouring of awakening emotion in the first act to the flexible, bitter-sweet lyricism of the last, Tebaldi superbly defined Violetta's stirrings and renunciation...