Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, he observes accurately enough, "there has been no one to replace me." One reason is that his major roles require a Heldentenor (heroic tenor), that rare breed of singer with the stature of a Valhalla deity, the projection of a diesel horn and the stamina of a Channel swimmer...
...team is also hoping for victories from Mike Cahalan in the 50-yard free and John Munk in the butterfly. Despite a leg injury Munk swam his fastest time against Princeton and just missed defeating Tiger Olympic swimmer Ross Wales...
Harvard narrowly missed victories in the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly which could have radically changed the score. Only three-tenths of a second separated Tobin Gerhart and Dave Powlison from Princeton's Tom Garretson, winner of the 200 freestyle. In the 200 fly, Crimson swimmer John Monk put in his best time of the year and just missed upsetting nationally ranked Ross Wales...
...best-known Tiger swimmer is Ross Wales, who competed in the butterfly in the Olympics, earning third place. Wales' time of 1:58.5 is the third best collegiate performance in the nation this season...
...into darkness, with no reassuring proof that God exists. Another response was modern Existentialism. In what it gloomily concedes is now a mechanistic world, it seeks to restore man's sense of individual vitality and will by urging him to will his own predetermined fate, just as a swimmer, stroking hard enough with an overwhelming current, can create the illusion that he is self-propelled...