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Best: Fandango Wrestles the Perfect Randy Orton Match (And Loses)
Last night's opening match was my favorite of the show, because it took two characters who are almost always moving in the wrong direction and righted them a little.
Believe it or not, on top of all the dancing and finger pointing, Fandango is a pretty good wrestler. Poor Johnny Curtis hasn't had a chance to do much since showing up, mostly being relegated to dance contests with The Great Khali or "showcase" matches against a swamp-assin'-it Chris Jericho. The difference between a goofy character in WWE and a goofy character that WORKS is the wrestling … so seeing Fandango getting in legitimate offense, wrestling a smart match and hanging with a top-level WWE Guy is incredibly important. It's what makes him a Million Dollar Man, and not a Duke The Dumpster. Here, Fandango looked like a star because he figured out the best way to go the distance with Randy Orton: stop him every time he starts trying to chain signature moves together.
And THAT's what made Randy Orton so good here. Orton's a perfectly cromulent wrestler, but he only ever seems to care about hitting his signature moves, shoehorning them into places they don't logically go. When Jerry Lawler is ragging on you for going to the "hanging DDT" well one too many times, you know you have a problem. It's just corny backbreaker, powerslam, hanging DDT, a bunch of clotheslines, a dropkick to counter somebody jumping and an RKO. Because of that, his matches tend to be extremely formulaic, and because we aren't one stop on a tour and see almost every WWE match on television, formulaic equals boring. Orton was great here, though, because he was TRYING to shoehorn in his signatures, and Fandango knew that and kept countering. So Orton had to switch it up, hitting the hanging DDT from the corner instead of the middle of the ropes and, most importantly, hitting a straight-up RKO in the middle of the ring instead of flopping around for five minutes and giving Dirty Curty a chance to counter.
On top of that, the crowd was super hot and hadn't gotten its head entire up its own ass yet. Wrestling is pretty easy when you've got talented wrestlers taking a fresh approach to the wrestling they always do, in front of a molten crowd. Orton looked good, Fandango got to look good in defeat, and I got to enjoy 12 minutes of pro graps at the top of my wrestling program. Please and thank you.
Worst: I See What You're Doing, Summer Rae
My only Worst for this match is how Summer Rae is clearly aware of whether or not the camera is on her. Watch her when the camera jumps out to get her reaction, she's standing still and waiting to see that little red light in her peripheral vision. So it's just "wait for it … wait for it … COME ON FANDANGO YEAH DO IT BUDDY" etc.
Always be in character, Summer Rae. Let the camera come to you. If you're good at your job, you'll get on screen a bunch. Notice how Rosa Mendes gets one shot per Epico match, but the camera lingers on Paul Heyman for 8 of 9 Curtis Axel minutes.
Best: Welp, At Least We Got Through That Without Any Slut-Shaming Or Maria Faces
In last week's column I joked about how the impending Dolph Ziggler/AJ Lee breakup was going to be exactly like the one he had with Maria, complete with that wacky face Maria makes to express "sadness" that looks like she just stumbled upon a guy getting head from a furry at the Overlook Hotel. The breakup officially happened on Raw last night, and, sure enough, it was the Dolph/Maria split, almost shot-for-shot.
The good news is twofold:
1. Dolph just broke up with her, and didn't yell at her about how she's a whore for having more than one boyfriend ever, which is what 90% of the roster would do
2. AJ is a better actor than Maria
Plus, it led to some fun stuff later in the show.
Best: I Am So F**king Ready For A Mark Henry/The Shield Feud
What do you do once you've had Mark Henry lose to John Cena like a chump, but everyone in the crowd seems to like him and want to get behind him? Move on from the Cena match quickly, and put Henry up against a bunch of guys the crowd loves to hate.
As the boldface suggests, I am so unbelievably f**king down with a Mark Henry/The Shield feud. The Shield wants to take Henry down because he's a "disappointment" — they, like WWE Legends, judge a wrestler's success or failure based on how often and thoroughly they beat John Cena — and because he's an "old dog" taking up spots that belong to the young guys. So they jumped Mark and triple powerbombed him (!!), and now he's got the clearest beef ever. I'd love to see Henry bring a bunch of his old tag team partners out of the mothballs. How awesome would a The Shield vs. Mark Henry/D'Lo Brown/MVP Raw main-event six-man be?
Worst: Brad Maddox Is Already Getting The John Laurinaitis Treatment
If you weren't a regular reader of the column back in late 2011/early 2012, Executive Vice President Of Talent Relations And General Manager Of Both Raw And Smackdown Mr. John Laurinaitis is my all-time favorite WWE TV NPC. If you need proof of that, look at my face and "oooh don't ruin this brandon" body language in this photo I took with him outside of Full Sail last week. I loved him, and I was always bothered by the fact that he seemed to be trying hard to be entertaining and put on shows, but he wasn't "cool" so the crowds hated him and the Cool Wrestlers were always being shitheads to him for no reason. Sure, at the end they made him a bit of a super villain, but for the longest time the worst thing he did was follow orders from corporate and have a weird voice.
That's what's happening to Brad Maddox now. He's trying hard to put on a good show, having been thrust into a position of power without any prep time. He's SUCCEEDED, too, because his first night on Raw was, as of now, the best Raw of the year. Good matches, good pacing, a few surprises and a SummerSlam decision that had people hashtagging about WWE for three hours. The show ended with everybody in the audience screaming their heads off and doing YES hands. So what's the problem? Why is Chris Jericho backstage making fun of Brad's clothes? Why are Triple H and Stephanie showing up to act rude to him, disrespect him to his face and try to make him worried about a job at which he's suddenly excellent? Because we "don't like him?" Maybe we'd like him if we were allowed to judge him on his own merits, instead of having Poochie show up and declare him "not radical."
What's the worst thing he's done? Be Vickie Guerrero's servant? He made fun of her on the PPV last night. Screw Ryback out of a WWE Championship against CM Punk? You don't like Ryback anymore, and everybody loves CM Punk. He's part of the equation that brought The Shield into WWE, he was funny enough to make Matt Striker interesting for the first time since ECW and he looks like Express For Men Jon Snow. Corn Beef is the man. I don't know what your problem is.
Best: Dolph Ziggler vs. Alberto Del Rio Is Always Good
All we get to see of it in the WWE Fan Nation video is a shoulderblock dodge and a second-rope Ace Crusher II (its proper name, thank you very much), but, as always, Alberto Del Rio vs. Dolph Ziggler was good. Very good. My biggest problem with Dolph Ziggler is that he can only wrestle one guy at a time and wrestles them over and over until the next guy shows up (Kofi Kingston, Daniel Bryan, John Cena), but the matches are solid, so I'll best them the first 25 or so times they happen.
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Best: James Should've Never Turned His Back On Jessie And Meowth
As sad as I am to see Team Rocket finally, officially split, I loved the post-match stuff here. AJ gets to be as crazy as they bill her by sneaking into the match in a hoodie (ultimate pro wrestling incognito) and ringing the bell, Dolph gets to look like an actual babyface by not kicking her in the crotch and Zig Zagging her when she starts screaming and slapping him, and Big E Langston gets to show his true colors with a f**king bulldozer monster attack on Ziggler. Big E is great, and I'm happy to see him get a meaningful program with somebody instead of just being a large, violent prop.
One of the most interesting things about Dolph Ziggler is how the "show off" aspect of his character keeps creating more and more problems for him. He got a concussion he isn't totally over, but keeps coming back from it because he craves attention and doesn't want to lose his spot. He calls a woman trash and she falls for him, and she's hot so he throws in with her and keeps her around, but now the negatives her called her on before they were together have come back around to haunt him. He brings in a giant guy to be his enforcer, but the giant guy likes AJ more than he likes Dolph, so now he's got to feud with his ex-girlfriend AND her monster lapdog. He's taken a shortcut or Zig-Zagged pretty much everybody on the roster and got his spot in the first place by hooking up with Vickie Guerrero, so nobody wants to help him or save him from attacks. Even his brother got fired. He's an accidental loner, and if he ever starts to realize that he's the cause of all his problems, he'll be the most easy-to-identify-with guy in pro wrestling.
Worst: Suddenly, R-Truth Is 1000 Years Old
Holy shit, what's wrong with Truth? Did he choose the wrong grail? Motherf**ker looks like Frederick Douglass.
Best: The Wyatt Family Attacks This Crazy Homeless Guy
BROOK LYN NEW YAWK *cue redneck brutality*
On the Internet, people have high expectations and a need for instant gratification, so if you show up and don't immediately put on the greatest match of all time and defeat the WWE Champion clean, they think you're "underwhelming." I think The Shield are the only guys who've ever debuted like that, and even they spent like two months attacking people randomly before they got put into a match. What I'm getting at is that as one of the leading THE WYATT FAMILY IS THE GREATEST THING EVER types on the Internet, I'm getting a lot of "meehhhh" messages about them.
My answer to that is this: in week one, they debuted with a cool entrance and handily dispatched a popular WWE veteran. In week two, they attacked a guy WWE crowds are familiar with and like (even if he's barely around anymore), debuted Wyatt's finisher on WWE TV (f**k yeah, Sister Abigail) and let Bray talk for the first time. In that speech, Wyatt proved how comfortable he is in the character, how great he is at doing the gimmick live (take notes, Sean O'Haire from 10 years ago) and how adept he is at changing his cadence and defeating "What" chance as they happen. The opinion that the Wyatts are great is not formed from these two weeks — it's been formed from watching him be the undisputed kingshit of NXT for the last year — but if it had been, it'd be the same. This is the freshest, most expertly-performed character we've gotten from WWE creative in years, and we need to love and appreciate it while it happens. We should try not to be Internet Guys about it. No Husky Harris chants, no Whats, no Meh Underwhelmings. Give it time, get into it and remember that real life is not an iPad, and sometimes things take more than two weeks to be the most awesome they'll ever be. Bray's gonna keep getting better. Trust me.
And honestly, just think about it. You know how I mentioned The Shield getting the best modern WWE debut ever? Are The Shield even characters? They just say "justice" a lot. They are justice dogs. Bray Wyatt is already more developed a character than "justice dogs."
Best/Worst: The Brooklyn Crowd Vs. Itself
A Worst goes out to the people in the Brooklyn crowd who tried to derail Wyatt's FIRST PROMO ON RAW EVER with "what" and "Husky Harris" chants, but an equally valid Best goes out to those in the crowd who STOPPED these chants. The "Husky Harris" was especially drowned out, reportedly with "shut the f**k up" responses, which is proper wrestling etiquette re: assholes in your section trying to get themselves over. Keep fighting the good fight, wrestling fans, and maybe we'll get to keep our good characters.
Bestish?: That Was A Tag Team Match
The Real Americans vs. The Usos was a great little tag team match, but I barely remember it happening.
If I was a little kid, I would be SO into the Usos. They've got the coolest entrance in wrestling, they've got colorful shorts, they're exciting in the ring and they're wearing facepaint. It's like 1988 Sting in tag team form. As a jaded grown-up, I obviously am into the Real Americans, because Jack Swagger has become the unofficial Best and Worst of Raw cult hero and Antonio Cesaro is the most woefully underrated guy on the WWE roster. If the Usos/Real Americans feud leaks into the Summerslam tag team championship match AND Mark Henry gets involved somehow, we're going to have the coolest gathering of wrestlers Brandon is into since … uh, the Smackdown Money in the Bank ladder match.
Regardless, it's time to push the Usos as a thing and get the tag team division back on its feet. Team Hell No is off doing better things, The Shield is good enough to anchor a batch of tag team matches for as long as you'd need, the Usos are finally starting to catch peoples' eyes and Rey Mysterio and Tyson Kidd can't be injured forever, right?
Worst: Michael McGillucutty Pins Mr. Money In The Bank
WWE: Where Champions Are The Worst Guys!
I'd complain more about Damien Sandow losing his first match after winning the Money in the Bank briefcase as an example of WWE's obsession with giving guys championships and immediately emasculating them, but I guess Sandow was ALREADY losing every match, so this is just par for the course. Watching Christian wrestle is getting increasingly worrisome, because he is basically George Jetson*. Look at him. Look at how he moves and runs. He should yell JANE, STOP THIS CRAZY THING when he sets up the Killswitch.
*(Thank you to Crew Spence for bringing this to my attention.)
Best: Cody Rhodes, Superface
On the upside, Cody Rhodes jumped Sandow after the match and got a HUGE reaction, complete with "Cody" chants, which are 1000% more positive for his career trajectory than "Cody's mustache." I don't like WWE faces attacking WWE heels — especially when the heel won the match fairly, even if it was personally disappointing to their friendship — but Cody's technically still a bad guy I guess, so I'll allow it. Plus, sometimes you're just super pissed. I can understand that. If Cody KEEPS attacking him for the next three weeks instead of just calling him out for a match for the briefcase at SummerSlam, I'll have a problem with it.
Cody and Damien were the best as best friends, but they're also super compatible as enemies. If you turn Sandow's sliminess up a notch and stop making him say funny things, you've got a top level heel. If you shave Cody's stupid novelty facial hair and let him have great matches and moments instead of instantly losing to Brodus Clay or whatever, you've got a top level face. It's win-win.
Also, wedge Goldust into this somehow, WWE, I'm f**king begging you.
Best With A Hint Of Worst: Naomi Is A Better Kofi Kingston Than Kofi Kingston
Okay, maybe not, but she's very good at jumping.
In fact, she might be TOO good at jumping. She's clearly got a better vertical than the rest of the Divas locker room combined, so whenever she does something she JUMPS HER ASS OFF. She does a complete front somersault in the air and lands on her feet doing the Undertaker clothesline, she almost jumps out of Brie Bellas hands during a hairmare and jumps way, way too high on a sunset flip attempt. Jump purposefully, not for show. She was also borderline twerking after she hit the Flying Asshole, which is concerning. Also, HOOK THE LEG WHEN YOU ARE GOING FOR PINS.
But no, I like Naomi, so I'm gonna give her a Best for dragging a competent wrestling match out of the Bellas instead of leaving them to ruin everything at the announce table. The Bellas aren't as bad in the ring as they seem, but while I'm mentioning them, whoever taught Brie Bella that chinlock where you grab your own wrist needs to unteach it. That move bothers me so much.
Worst: Are We Seriously Still Doing 1-800-FELLA
Didn't Daniel Bryan end this joke with his "if I call 1-800-FELLA can I hire you to Brogue Kick yourself in the face" comment? Why are we still doing 1-800-FELLA commercials? There's a reason every crowd that isn't made up of 5-year old rural Iowans boos the shit out of Sheamus.


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Foxcroft Head of School Mary Louise Leipheimer announced Wednesday that Margaret B., a senior at the Middleburg, VA, school, has been named a finalist in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Margaret was selected as a finalist from among the 1.55 million eligible students who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in October 2009! That puts her among the top one percent of high school students in the country and makes her eligible for the National Merit Scholarships worth more than $36 million that will be awarded later this spring to these academically-talented students.
"Everything We Do Is Curriculum," an article written by Foxcroft's Academic Dean, Alexander O. Northrup, is featured in the 2010-11 edition of NowBoarding, the Official College Prep Boarding School Magazine and Directory, published by The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS). The story, which reflects Foxcroft's mission and philosophy as well as Northrup's personal take on boarding school, appeared in slightly abridged form in the July issue of KeepingTABS, the Association's e-newsletter for member school professionals.NowBoarding, however, reaches a much larger audience than KeepingTABS. As the primary source for families investigating the world of residential independent schools, it is distributed to families, schools, libraries, consultants, and embassies around the world. Each year, NowBoarding includes just a handful of stimulating stories about education and boarding school life along with the in-depth profiles of the TABS's 300+ member schools. "Everything We Do is Curriculum" is just such a story. Based on remarks Northrup made at a faculty meeting, it posits that boarding schools offer a unique opportunity for learning to go on in the classroom and out. It affords, he writes, teachers the chance to truly fulfill their vocation by instructing students in the skills they need to succeed in life, conveying the collective wisdom and experience of our culture, and helping students explore what it "means to be a human being at this time, in this place."Read the entire story, as it appeared in KeepingTABS, or request a copy of NowBoarding.
Led by Division I recruit Markell S., Norfolk Collegiate School beat Fredericksburg Academy, 54-26, then defeated the Madeira School, 66-47, Saturday to win the second annual Think Pink Basketball Tournament at Foxcroft School.The event, which included junior varsity and middle school competitions, drews throngs of people to the School's beautiful Athletic/Student Center and raised more than $1,000 for the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation, Foxcroft Athletic Director Michelle Woodruff announced Sunday. View stories and photos on LoudounTimes.com, Viva Lopudoun or below.
Alex C., a junior guard, scored six points in the final quarter to spark Foxcroft's junior varsity to a nail-biting 24-23 victory over Seton on February 8 and earn Player of the Week honors for February 6-12.
Alex led the JV with a season-high eight points in the game and helped the team record its second victory of the season.
A hard-nosed defensive player from Wellington, Fla., Alex has been a sparkplug at the No. 2 guard position all season. She was a first-team all-Delaney Athletic Conference selection in volleyball last fall.
Junior McKenzie C. won two ribbons and qualified for the Region I finals to lead seven ribbon-winning Foxcroft riders Saturday, Feb. 5 at the Greenway Horse Show at Featherdown, an Interscholastic Equestrian Association points meet.McKenzie took fourth in the individual Varsity Open over fences competition to qualify in that class. Teammate Kasey C '13 placed third in but her cumulative point total is lower than Mckenzie's. Olivia G '12 and Maddie T. '14 also took third place honors, both in Varsity Intermediate Under Saddle competition. Full results follow.
Foxcroft Head of School Mary Louise Leipheimer became only the third individual to receive the prestigious Ruzicka Compass Premier Leadership Award Friday (Dec. 3) when Rob Hershey, Board Chair of The Association of Boarding Schools, presented the honor to her at the TABS Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD.
Montana '11, Isabel '11, Taylor '13 and Kate '14 take competitive reading honors; Alexis '12 wins SlamSeniors Montana and Isabel, sophomore Taylor and freshman Kate took top honors in their respective class of the Competitive Poetry Readings Saturday at the Paul K. Bergan Poetry Festival. Alexis, a junior, was crowned the 2011 Poetry Slam champion Friday evening. For videos from the weekend, click here.
The poetry festival is a longtime Foxcroft tradition that was re-named after a beloved English teacher upon his retirement in 2007. It includes a free-wheeling evening of performance poetry and coffee-house "open mic" entertainment, a workshop and reading by a visiting poet of note, and a variety of competitive and non-competitive readings.
Awesome! That's the only word that can describe the experience that Faith S, a Foxcroft School junior, had over Thanksgiving break. Faith, a 16-year-old rock climber, competed in the first-ever Pan American Youth Sport Climbing Championships, in Ibarra, Ecuador, and came home with a bronze medal! Not only that, but none other than the President of Ecuador, Raffael Correa, placed the medal around her neck – even though Faith beat his daughter!
Nearly 100 parents, students and educators -- including Heads of School from three Middleburg institutions -- gathered at Foxcroft School's Athletic/Student Center Thursday night to view and discuss a provocative documentary film called Race to Nowhere. The film, produced by a concerned mother-turned-filmmaker, has sparked a nationwide discussion by looking at the high-stakes, high-pressure culture that permeates schools and student's lives today and questioning policies and practices that focus on testing, performance, and competition, sometimes at the cost of meaningful teaching and learning.Following the 90-minute movie, which consisted of interviews with children who have been pushed to the brink and parents trying to do what's best for their kids, as well as psychologists and education experts, Foxcroft's Academic Dean, Alexander O. Northrup facilitated an open discussion. Letting go of the need for every child to be an academic superstar, refocusing on teaching kids how to learn and to love learning, cutting back on homework and even eliminating grades were among the topics touched on. "I don't think it ends in college or even after college," said Foxcroft Head of School Mary Louise Leipheimer. "Children are growing up feeling the need to be on the fast track for everything and forgetting that experience is a teacher too and that sometimes you have to struggle and work through a problem. It's a lifetime issue and we have to begin to look at what is going on and what is being lost."Northrup thanked the audience for coming and urged them to continue the discussion. "You are the people who care about education enough to be here, to take the time to watch this movie and be part of this conversation," he said. "Use your social capital to go out and further the discussion. Talk to your friends, talk to your colleagues. Use your social capital to make changes to help ensure that our children grow up to be thoughtful, bright, creative, happy people."To learn more about the event, click below. To see a story about the evening that appears on Leesburg Today.com, click here.
Poet, playwright and publisher Kwame Alexander highlights the weekend when he reads from his work on Saturday morning but some exciting (and excited!) new talent will debut at Friday's freewheeling Poetry Slam and a slew of students, selected by their peers, will read before a panel of faculty judges tonight in hopes of earning a place in the adjudicated poetry reading competition scheduled for Saturday afternoon. For for more information about the visiting poet and a complete schedule of events. please READ MORE.
Scores of alumnae, parents and friends -- not to mention virtually the entire student body and faculty -- enjoyed unseasonably warm weather, two terrific field hockey games and several other special events Saturday when Foxcroft's cherished tradition of Fox/Hound held its first competition of the school year.
From the early morning gathering of the Middleburg Hunt, which featured a half-dozen senior Foxcroft riders shadowing the masters of the hunt, huntsman and whippers-in, right up until the whistle signaled the end of Big Game, the buzz of excitement, joy or reunion and pure pleasure of friendly competition inundated the School's gorgeous campus. When all was said and done, Foxes and Hounds, alike, all came away with identical records of a win, a loss, and a tie.
Schools, community invited to see film that explores the effects of today's pressure-packed academic culture
The high-stakes, high-pressure culture that permeates today's schools and students' lives will be explored Thursday, Dec. 2 at Foxcroft when the documentary film Race to Nowhere will be screened and discussed. The public is invited to join teachers, parents and administrators from Foxcroft and other area schools at the event, to be held in the Engelhard Gymnasium on the School's Middleburg, VA, campus.
Assistant Attorney General speaks to community
How easy is it to find someone on the Internet? Very. That was one of the key messages Lawrence L. "Chip" Muir, Virginia Assistant Attorney General/Prosecutor for Computer Crimes, shared with students and faculty last Friday in a fascinating morning presentation.
At 6'7" with long arms that seem to stretch all the way to the top of the gym, Tom Hulse is an imposing figure on the volleyball court. And when the former NCAA star talked about the game he loves so well the Foxcroft students listened intently, hanging on every word.
Hulse was part of a coaching group that gave a three-hour volleyball clinic at Foxcroft on Saturday, Oct. 9. Seventeen students, most of the varsity and junior varsity team members, turned out for the clinic which focused on the basics of the game. Eric and Jessica Martin of Alexandria and Foxcroft varsity volleyball coach Elizabeth McComas joined Hulse as coaches for the clinic.
Thirty-two students were honored recently for their fine performance on national foreign language exams. The highest accolade went to Margaret B. '11, who earned a 5th ranking regionally and 7th nationally in the Level 5 (AP) French test. This year, more than 101,000 students around the world took the National French Contest (Le Grand Concours), which is administered by the American Association of Teachers of French.On the National Spanish Exam, designed by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, and taken by more than 100,000 students, four Foxcroft students earned "Plata" (Silver) honors and three earned "Bronce" (bronze) designation. In Latin, two Level 1 students were honored.
Margaret '11 has been accepted into the prestigious Virginia Governor's School for the Humanities this summer, Academic Dean Alexander O. Northrup announced recently.
A picture-perfect day greeted the members of Foxcroft School's Class of 2010 in Miss Charlotte's Garden Friday morning (May 21) when Head of School Mary Louise Leipheimer presented 51 girls their diplomas at the School's 96th commencement.
The Class, which includes young women from 12 states and six foreign countries, includes four National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Students and a University of Virginia Echols Scholar. Members of the Class have been offered an impressive 191 acceptances and more than $1.25 million in merit scholarship from 129 colleges and universities, including Barnard, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Kenyon, Lehigh, Parsons School of Design, Southern Cal, University of Texas (Austin), Vanderbilt, Virginia, William & Mary, and the University of Wisconsin.
Led by co-captains and scoring aces Ashton '10 and Dish '10, Foxcroft Varisty Lacrosse Team won the third annual Foxcroft Invitational Tournament For Lacrosse Tournament Saturday with wins over Wakefield School and Paul VI High School (Fairfax). The tournament hosts, who also won the inaugural FIT title in 2008, cruised past Wakefield School (The Plains, VA) 15-7 in the first game and downed Paul VI High (Fairfax, VA) in the championship game. Foxcroft is 7-1 on the season, with the only loss coming at the hands of Delaney Athletic Conference rival Highland School. Norfolk Collegiate, which fell to Paul VI 10-5 in the morning, defeated Wakefield in the consolation final.
Sunny and breezy -- those words describe the weather andthe mood Saturday afternoon when Foxcroft School dedicated its beautiful new Athletic/Student Center. Several hundred students, alumnae, parents, trustees (past and present), faculty and friends gathered around the building to see Forrest E. Mars, the angel of the project, ceremoniously cut a white ribbon and officially open the $14 million, 26,000-square-foot facility. The crowd let out a loud roar when Mars snipped the ribbon and the students, many attired in their athletic uniforms, broke out with ebullient, drum-accompanied Fox and Hound cheers to celebrate a new day in the history of the girls' boarding school.The building, which opened in stages beginning in February, features three gyms (a double box and the renovated original gym), a fitness center, rock climbing wall, mezzanine-level running track and gallery, athletic trainer's room, team rooms and offices. In addition, an entire wing is dedicated to student activities and includes a dance studio, student center, game room, kitchen and snack room. It is expected to be one of the showcase buildings of western Loudoun County and, with versatile spaces that can host a variety of events, will benefit the greater community as well as the Foxcroft family.
Senior Lillibet, an outstanding leader of her class and the School's efforts to help fight breast cancer, was named a "Future Leader of Loudoun" March 10 by the Loudoun Times-Mirror. Lillibet is the third Foxcroft student in four years chosen for this honor, which includes a profile in the weekly paper and a $1,500 grant toward her college education.
A Middleburg resident, Lillibet was president of her class for three years and is a member of School's Judicial Council. She is also a captain of the Riding Team and Whippers In, a group of the best riders at Foxcroft. Most impressive of all, however, is the dedication and energy Lillibet has devoted to raising awareness and funds for research and for care of those who have breast cancer, a disease that claimed her mother. For three years running, she has organized students and faculty to participate in Nanette's Walk -- leading the largest contingent in the walk every time and raising thousands of dollars for the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Fund.The "Future Leaders" were honored at a special gathering on Friday, March 12. To read about that and see the rest of the special section on all the outstanding youngsters tabbed by the paper, click here. Congratulations, Lillibet! We are proud of you.
A report on the Alison Firestone Robitaille '95 Clinic
by Laura ScharfenbergLast weekend, before making her way down to Palm Beach to meet up with her horses for the winter, Alison Robitaille '95 visited her old stomping grounds, the McConnell Stables, to share her knowledge and passion with our girls (and a few guests) during a two-day riding clinic.
It was the first of three clinics being presented at Foxcroft this year by celebrated alumnae: Nina Fout '77 will be here this Saturday (Nov. 13) and Eliza Shuford '96 is scheduled to come in the new year.
Jessa, a junior at Foxcroft School and resident of Bluemont, VA, is one of just 318 students in the U.S. to be named Semifinalists Friday in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, Foxcroft Science Department Chair Julie R. Ervin announced. Only 16 Virginia students earned Semifinalist recognition -- eight of whom attend Thomas Jefferson High School for Math and Science in Alexandria.
One of the nation's leading original research competitions in math, science and technology for high school students, the Siemens Competition is administered by the College Board and arwards college scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $100,000 in individual and team categories. Jessa was recognized for her project entitled "Verifying Proper Protein Expression of Mutated ORF5 of the GTA in Rhodobacter capsulatus." The project was conducted at Foxcroft School's Summer Science Research Institute, which debuted at the Middleburg school last summer. Ervin, who also holds the Eleanor Stevens Science Chair at Foxcroft, is the director of the Institute.
Foxcroft School claimed its second straight Columbus Cup Invitational Field Hockey Tournament Saturday (Sept.26) in The Plains, VA, with rain-drenched victories over local rivals Notre Dame Academy and Wakefield School, the tournament host. Foxcroft is 7-1 and has outscored opponents 24-2 at the mid-point of its season.
Alessandra and Camille interviewed MIT, Annie Way and UCF. Alessandra wrote about what they learned in their interviews:
Earlier this spring, the Washington Post named Laura Honorable Mention All-Met; she and Ashton '10 were named All-Loudoun County and teammate Maria '07 was selected to the All-Independent School Leaguie team.
The Class, which includes young women from 14 states, four foreign countries and the District of Columbia, is an accomplished one, having received 187 acceptances to 115 colleges, earned close to $2 million in merit scholarships and collected numerous other kudos.
Nikia Bergan, a member of the Class of 1993 and the daughter of revered faculty members Celeste P. and Paul K. Bergan, who are retiring this month, was the featured speaker and gave the graduates three key pieces of advice: Get to know yourselves as you are and learn to love that; Don't be afraid to make mistakes (and to learn from them) and be kind, always.
Jillian, who plans to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next fall, is one of 2,500 distinguished high school seniors to earn a $2,500 Merit Scholarship. She was chosen from a talent pool of approximately 15,000 National Merit Finalists -- and from among more than 1.4 million students who took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) in October 2005.
The morning after performing his one-man show, Strange Voyage: An Artist's Travelogue, as the premier event in the Helen Cudahy Niblack '42 Arts Lecture Series, Harris held a question-and-answer session for an hour with the entire Foxcroft community and then met with the theater production class.
As generous with his time as he is with his talent – which is considerable – Harris continued the dialogue with Foxcroft students through lunch and into the afternoon before heading home to New York City.
A day earlier – in the midst of putting the final touches on his show – Harris had taken time out to give some tips to Foxcroft's Chorale. The group is rehearsing for a workshop performance of Stephen Sondheim���s musical Into the Woods, a show in which Harris appeared on Broadway. As he watched the students run through several scenes, he was quick to offer valuable pointers.
Shannon was cited for her work on the inaugural Loudoun YouthFest, which drew more than 1,500 youngsters to Ida Lee Park in Leesburg last May. She helped develop the concept of the festival and put in hundreds of hours over two years to organize and plan it, making presentations to community leaders, school principals and local businesses to build support and leading weekly committee meetings of students and adults to ensure the event's success.
The squad has won its first three regular-season games by a combined score of 35-12 over Georgetown Day, Maret and Highland. Poor field conditions and the school play combined for a matchless week (April 16-22) but the squad has three games in the next four days.
Harris has performed in Into the Woods, Big River and Les Miserables on Broadway, understudying lead roles in each, and has appeared in numerous regional and international productions. The first foreign actor to work in the Korean-language theater in Korea, he earned "Best Actor" honors at the Korean Theater Awards for his performance as Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Performances are scheduled for 7:30pm Thursday and Friday, April 19 and 20, in FoxHound Auditorium, in Schoolhouse. Admission is free but seating is limited. Call 540-687-5555 for more information.
Selected by a community panel, Sarah and the other young leaders were cited for "living a life of meaning and purpose" and realizing " that they can use their passions and interests to influence the future."
In the article that appeared in the March 21 issue of the Times-Courier, Sarah named Celeste Bergan, head of Foxcroft's Science Department and Sarah's freshman biology teacher as her hero.
"I respect that Mrs. Bergan gives every girl who walks through her door a chance to find courage in the classrroom and a love for learning," Sarah said.
Shannon, a four-year letter-winner from Purcellville, VA, averaged 12 points and 8 rebounds per game. She grabbed more than 10 rebounds in nine different games and notched a "double-double" (double-digits in points and rebounds) in six games.
The Foxcroft seniors named to the national scholastic honor society are Tanya (Lovettsville, Va.), Stephanie (The Plains, Va. ), Savannah (Clifton, Va.), Lisa (Reston, Va.), Morgan (New York, N.Y.), Cameron (Fenton, Mich.), Sarah S. (Millwood, Va.), Cherice (Newark, N.J.), and Hadley W. (Middlebury, Vt.). Yejin of Seoul, Korea, and Catherine Y. of Upperville, Va., had the special distinction of being selected as juniors.
In the first meet, held at Garrison Forest, freshmen Alex W. and Summer A. were the only winners, in novice and beginner class competitions, respectively. Both girls also collected fifth-place ribbons, while Emily E. '07, in intermediates, and Townsend '07, in beginners, also collected two ribbons each.
Garrison won that meet with 66.5 points while Linden Hall edged Foxcroft, 29.5 to 28, for second place.
On Sunday, Foxcroft traveled to McLean, VA, for a meet at Madeira. Tiffany '07 won both intermediate events and Townsend placed second in both beginner competitions to lead the squad. Hannah S. '07, Kate A' '09, Julia '09 and Gabby '09 also won two ribbons each.
The final score was Garrison 51, Foxcroft 41.5, and Madeira 26.5.
Foxcroft looks forward to defending its TSEL title in April, when it hosts the championship finals.
For complete results pf this past weekend, please read on.
Michael '08, Carly '09 and Lindsay A. '10 won their respective classes' laurels at the competition, judged by visiting poets Josh Exoo and Sarah Rose Exoo. Stewart Herbert, the chair of the Foxcroft English Department, and colleagues Paul Bergan, Glenn Kantz, Ruth Marshall, and Mia Noffsinger organized the event, a beloved Foxcroft tradition.
In the morning, Christa '07 was named the 2007 Poetry Slam Champion after bringing the house down in the second round of the competition with a poem entitled, "Tuesdays and Thursdays." A last-minute entry after another student withdrew due to illness, Christa won $100 in the student-judged, let-your-hair-down contest. Amelia '09 placed second and defending champion Shannon '07 took third prize. Sarah Hope '07, Yejin '08 and Nell '08 were the other finalists, who advanced from among 18 brave students that shared original compositions in performance.
"In Malawi, when we want to say thank you, we don't write a thank-you note or send an e-mail," Bishop Boyle told students and faculty in an all-school meeting. "When people help us as you have helped us, we go in person and tell them how grateful we are. It's important to sit face-to-face and talk.
"When we want to say 'Thank you,' we say 'Zikomo,'" he continued. "But when we want to say 'Thank you very, very much indeed,' we say, 'Zikomo kwambiri.' On behalf of the 1.2 milllion people in Northern Malawi, I say Zikomo kwambiri to you."
Led by the Class of 2007, which organized the event, the Foxcroft community raised $15,343 last April with a Walk-a-thon and t-shirt sale. Ambassador Bernard Sande, Malawi's envoy to the United States, came out from Washington, D.C., to walk with the students and made them "official ambassadors of Malawi."
In the piece, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, a Foxcroft School alumna and current parent, recounts her experience participating in the 1982 march in Washington, D.C., to support a bill to make Dr. King's birthday a federal holiday. At the time, Danquah was a freshman at Foxcroft, which offered students an opportunity to miss classes to take part in the march.
"It was one of the most extraordinary and impacting experiences of my life," she says, noting that the legislation carried in 1983.
Friday, December 1 kicked off a busy weekend of community service and holiday celebrations highlighted by a special perspective on the Foxcroft tradition of community service shared by Director of Activities and Transportation Jane Lockhart.
On the eve of attending her 50th Pageant, Jane talked about growing up in Middleburg when Foxcroft girls visited the local elementary school weekly to teach singing, art and sports, and Miss Charlotte sent a bus the first Wednesday of December to bring the schoolchildren to the pageant.
"Afterwards, we got a bag with a cookie and an apple and an orange from Santa," says Jane. "And then we got two presents: something to play with and something to wear. And the clothes always fit!"
Jane takes great pleasure in helping Foxcroft's legacy of "giving back" continue, and students and teachers alike enjoy the multitude of activities the weekend features.
Friday night the dining room was closed and the money saved, along with donations from Student Council, Dean of Students and others used to buy supplies to:
Chelsy, who played center forward, center mid and center back this fall, scored nine of Foxcroft's 22 goals. She also had four assists and helped lead Foxcroft to a 9-5-2 record. The squad was ranked 10th among independent schools in Virginia and reached the second round of the ISL Tournament before falling, 1-0, in double overtime, to Stone Ridge.
Also contributing significantly to the team's success was co-captain and goalie Laura '07. She had a sensational season, notching 161 saves and eight shutouts while allowing only 16 goals.
The Green Team (Varsity) scored 68 points to bring home the Surrey Bowl; and the White Team (JV) took third place among six junior varsity teams with 30 points.
Freshman Summer A. placed first and second in the Walk/Trot classes to lead the charge as Foxcroft earned 48 points to easily outdistance Grier School, with 43.5 points, and Columbia Stables, with 32.5. It was an auspicious start for the TSEL defending champions.
The newspaper, which serves Clarke County, VA, west of Middleburg, interviewed the girls about their experiences with distant cultures. Sarah studied and traveled in China before her junior year and attended a Virginia Governor's School intensive Japanese language school this past summer. Hannah attended a Korean language camp and recently sang a duet in Korean with her friend Su-Im '08 at the Battle of the Dorms.
To see the story in the Courier-Times, click here.
Kate rode Good and Plenty to first place in Division 3 (Novice-Rider 1) competition, placing third in the dressage portion and covering both cross-country and stadium jumping courses cleanly. She then partnered with Smooth Sailin' in Division 5 (Novice, Rider 2) for a second victory, in which she also led after dressage.
In addition, Foxcroft Math teacher Laura Berdine was named an Outstanding Educator by the Governor's School for Mathematics, Science and Technology at Lynchburg College after being nominated by Shannon.
The Virginia's Governor's Schools Program, sponsored by the state department of education, offers gifted students a range of intensive educational experiences.
Savannah and Sarah both spent three weeks (June 25-July 16) at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond attending Governor's Foreign Language Academies, in French and Japanese, respectively. Savannah, winner of Foxcroft's 2006 French Prize, says she learned to love French last year in Mme. Janice Brown's class but she became comfortable speaking it during the total-immersion academy.
W.E. will broadcast the educational TV show Today's Family, which includes a segment on "The Importance of Choosing the Right School." In addition, KPXL PAX-TV in San Antonio, TX, will air the show four times in September, Platinum Productions announced recently.
The show focuses on single-sex education and also highlights Barnard College, an independent liberal arts college for women in New York City. San Antonio airtimes are: Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 4:30 PM; Thursday, Sept. 14 at 6:30 a.m., Monday, Sept. 25 at 4:30 p.m. and Thursday, Sept. 28 at 6:30 a.m.
Starting July 17, Foxcroft's online bookstore will be officially open for the ordering of textbooks. Families may choose to have their orders delivered to their homes or to Foxcroft, where they will be stored until the start of school.
Many returning students have already availed themselves of MBS Direct's buyback program, which started in May and gave them an opportunity to sell their used books easily and efficiently.
Foxcroft's online book store is accessible from the Academic Program page of the School's website. Look for the ORDER BOOKS button on the lower left side of the page.
In his spring announcement about the online bookstore, Academic Dean John Suitor wrote:
Laura is Foxcroft's first All-American lacrosse selection and is also believed to be the first player from Loudoun County ever selected. In addition, she is the only goaltender from US Lacrosse's very competitive Potomac Chapter and one of the few juniors among the 32 goaltenders chosen nationwide.
Information on the selection process and a complete list of athletes honored may be found here. More information about Laura and the Lacrosse team's season is available in the Athletics area of the website.
Sixteen students and two math teachers attended the event, held May 19 in Dumfries, VA. In addition to enjoying the amusement park rides, the students participated in math and science contests sponsored by King's Dominion and local science foundations.
The competitions required students to follow very careful specifications or be disqualified, and Foxcroft's students did a fantastic job in this regard in their first year of participation.
For the roller-coaster competition, Jillian '07, Betsy '06, Steffi '07, and Grace '07 spent the better part of two weeks creating a track that uses only gravity to run. They received extra points for vertical loops, g-force areas, longer running times, creative themes and quality of work. Experimenting with with different materials and different angles of rotation in order to get the ball bearing to remain on the track, the students used many mathematical and physics principles to build their coaster. Their work was rewarded with a second place trophy.
Laura was joined on the All-ISL lacrosse team by lacrosse co-captain and midfielder Jess '06, while pitcher Lindsay '06 was named to the All-ISL softball team.
For the second straight year, Alex P. '06 won the Whippers In competition. she was one of a very few riders to have a clean ride on a breezy afternoon that stirred horse-spooking flags on several jumps. Emily E. '07, who also made it through the course cleanly, placed second, followed by Michelle '06 and Caitlin M. '07.
In Wednesday's Fox-Hound competition, The Hounds completed their sweep of the year's intramural contests, scoring 25 points to the Foxes' -21.5. Jordan '07 and her older sister, Alex P., took first and third, respectively, for the Hounds in the Big Team class. Julie '06 placed second and Caitlin '07 finished fourth for the Foxes.
Dr. Raphaelson, the medical director of the Greater Washington Sleep Disorders Centers, is a board-certified neurologist with special qualifications in neurophysiology and sleep disorders medicine -- and also the father of a member of Foxcroft's freshman class. Mrs. Bergan invited him to speak to her Anatomy class and to other interested members of the Foxcroft community.
In the National Spanish Exam, sophomore Cristina '08 (Lomas, Mexico) placed second in Virginia and sixth nationally among Level 5 Bilingual students. Amelia '09 (Madison, WI) scored in the 95th percentile nationally in Level 1 and Gabriella '09(Coral Gables, FL), also a freshman, scored in the 96th percentile in Level 2, respectively.
Regionally, Jackie '06 (Scarsdale, NY) placed 8th among Level 5 Bilingual students in Virginia; Helen '09 (San Antonio, TX) and Camille '09 (Jackson, MS) placed 10th and 11th respectively, among Bilingual Level 2 exam-takers, and Seline '08(Washongton, DC) placed 19th in Level 4. Tanya Chanh '07 (Lovettsville, VA) was 12th among Virginia's Level 4 students with Outside Experience.
French students Shannon '07 (Purcellville, VA), Nicole '06(Mexico City) and Whitney '07 (Middleburg, VA) earned regional honors in Le Grand Concours sponsored by the American Association of Teacher of French. Shannon and Nicole placed 9th and 10th, respectively, among Northern Virginia Level 4 students and Whitney placed 11th among the area's Level 2 participants. Shannon and Nicole have been invited to the AATF chapter's awards ceremony next week in Alexandria, VA.
Tri-captains Bethany '06, Jess C. '06 and Laura B. '07 have been a big part of the effort, with Bethany spear-heading the offense, Laura holding fast in the goal and Jess contributing at both ends. Laura and classmate Maria, who is among the team's leading scorers, both earned Washington Post Loudoun All-Extra honors a year ago.
In the past week, Foxcroft has racked up wins against Independent School League opponents Madeira (a 12-0 shutout); Georgetown Day School (15-4) and Flint Hill (10-4), as well as local rival Highland (18-4).
The squad faces St. James School, which sports a 5-1 record, Thursday afternoon in Middleburg.
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The public is invited to attend Raskin's lecture, entitled "They've Got Mail; You've Got Trouble," at 8:00 pm at Foxhound Auditorium, in Foxcroft's Schoolhouse. A reception will follow the presentation, which is aimed at adults. Raskin, aka "Internet Mom," is meeting with Foxcroft students in small groups during her two-day visit.
McBride, lives with his wife, Kendra, in Cross Junction, VA, ajoins the students in urging friends and neighbors of Foxcroft to donate blood in his honor.
The blood drive, one of three conducted annually at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, will be held from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the FoxHound Auditorium. Appointments may be scheduled by calling 540-687-4322 or emailing email@example.com. Students will welcome donors and assist the Red Cross in this crucial community service.
The event: the annual Foxcroft Junior Class Walk-A-Thon. The cause: A school in the poor African country of Malawi. The speaker: Bernard Sande, the ambassador to the U.S. from that country.
Already the girls had raised $15,000 towards the Tilora School in Northern Malawi. With another $1,000, the Walk-A-Thon funds could pay for the completion of a brand new school under Tilora's jurisdiction.
"The amount you have raised is a testament to the extraordinary American generosity of this school," said Ambassador Sande, who made the 90-minute trip from Washington, D.C. in the rain. "Because there is no great genocide or political instability, Malawi is often overlooked by major organizations for foreign aid but our needs are great.
"I am making each one of you an official ambassador of Malawi," he added, inviting the walkers to visit the Embassy anytime.
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The show, which focuses on single-sex education, also highlights Barnard College, an independent liberal arts college for women in New York City. Foxcroft was selected by the show's producers, the Platinum Television Group, last summer; a film crew visited the campus in October to film the segment.
"Foxcroft provides a residential learning experience for girls in which academic excellence, leadership, responsibility and integrity are the highest values," Platinum officials said in announcing the selection.
Foxcroft, which was fifth among the seven teams in the standings entering the show, collected 11 ribbons to earn a total of 36.7 points.
The Madeira School earned 35 points while Garrison Forest School, the league leader after the regular-season meets, scored 25, followed by Oldfields Schools (11.5), Columbia (8), Linden Hall (6.5) and Grier (2).
Foxcroft earned 10 points for winning the Finale, boosting its Total Quality Points for the2005-2006 season to 21, one ahead of Reserve Champion Garrison Forest. Madeira finished third with 18 TQPs.
Jessi, who led the team to an 8-11 record and a spot in the ISL Playoffs, was a standout at both ends of the floors with her rebounding and scoring. It was her fourth year on the Varsity squad.
A Middleburg, VA., resident, Jessi also was named Loudoun Extra Field Hockey Player of the Year by the Washington Post and made the first team All-ISL in that sport as well. She plans to attend Kent State University on a field hockey scholarship in the fall.
The Mid-Atlantic region of NATS includes Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and the District of Columbia. Its conference and Student Adjudications are set for first April 7 at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC.
Rachael, a resident of Ligonier, PA., and winner of last week's Middleburg, VA., Bland Music Competition, participated in the Musical-Theater – Advanced High School Women category at the NATS Conference.
Her classmate Elizabeth, of Fenton, MI, sang in the Advanced High School Women category and missed advancing to the regionals when her score fell just 0.34 of a point short of the superior rating. She earned an excellent rating for her selections from standard classical vocal literature.
It was the first time that Foxcroft students had participated in the NATS event.
Three days after dropping a thrilling 58-51 overtime battle in its final regular-season game, Foxcroft pushed the Hawks to the brink on their own court Friday in the first round of the Independent School League Tournament. The 43-42 loss left Foxcroft with an 8-11, 7-11 in the ISL record for the season. NCS finished 17-8 overall and 12-4 in the league.
Garrison Forest won the meet with 47.5 points; Foxcroft had 38.5 points and Oldfields finished third with 38. With the abbreviated three-meet regular season complete, Foxcroft sits two points out of first place. The seven-team finals to determine the champion for the year will be held at Foxcroft April 8-9.
The talent show featured 25 students representing five schools -- Blue Ridge, Oldfields, St. Mary's,Woodberry Forest and Foxcroft. About 150 enthusiastic sspectators watched as Foxcroft mounted five acts of the 12 acts and easily outscored the competition according to the judges.
Su-Im '08 won the Vocal category with a song sung in her native Korean and Rooni '08 took first in Instrumental with a piano performance. Cameron '07 tapped her way to second in the Dance competition and placed third in Vocals. Fox Fire, a song-and-dance ensemble compsed of three freshmen,Lia, Julita and Lauren, also performed well.
Cox, an accomplished ceramics artist, donated the design and creation of the distinctive trophy for the event.
Foxes' standout Claire '05 was named Girls Player of the Year in the Post's Loudoun Spring All-Extra "Champions and Stars of the High School Season" special. The June 19 article said this "repeat All-Extra selection finished with a team-high 51 goals and 24 assists and was a key component of the Foxes' emergence. A unanimous All-Independent School League A team selection and an honorable mention All-Met, she will play for the University of Massachusetts."
Matt Macdonald was named Girls Lacrosse Coach of the Year. "Under Macdonald, Foxes have evolved into a league title contender," the article said. "Foxcroft completed the best season in the history of the program, which included an 8-5 record and its first appearance in the ISL A semifinals."
Foxcroft was also represented in the First Team selections by defensive player Maria '06. "This repeat All-Extra finished with 19 turnovers forced and a team-high 36 ground balls," the story noted.


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With dictionaries of contemporary slang, you can simply omit anything that is not current. Jonathon Green made his name in that area, having produced such a dictionary as long ago as 1984, but here he has greater ambitions. Green's is the first new dictionary of the entire range of slang, current and historical, since Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, first published in 1937. But in some ways he goes further. Green not only reconsiders the historical material, dating back to the 16th century, but he brings in more American slang and contemporary vocabulary from areas of life Partridge could not have imagined.
One of the most famous definitions of slang comes from Carl Sandburg, the American poet. He called it "language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands ... and goes to work". This is an attractive image, but misleading. Work is the last place slang goes. More often, it goes to the bookie's, or the boozer, or to the football or the knocking-shop. As children, we hear the word only in terms of disapproval. And while we all use slang as adults, we are careful to match it to our circumstances: among friends, but not in a job application.
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With such pressure on space, Green has regretfully decided to do without citations for his sources. To have included them would have placed this dictionary on a higher plane of academic authority: on the other hand, it would have made it vast, expensive and slow to emerge.
So he opts for accessibility, with a book that, though not as physically robust as it might be - those 1,300 pages strain the limit of perfect- binding, and the paper is thin - is admirably useable. Entries are straightforwardly set out and clearly typeset. They are also alphabetical, unremarkable in a dictionary, but worth mentioning in the light of Oxford's baffling decision to present its own new slang work thematically. Green gives each word an approximate date, an attempted etymology, cross-references and a definition.
Green is a one-man band, and his definitions are stylish, slyly amusing and pleasantly idiosyncratic. "Got your eye full?", for instance is "Addressed to someone who is staring, with the undoubted suggestion that they should stop at once; it can be followed with `Want a picture?'". On the same page we learn that "gouda" is an unappealing person on American campuses; that to "go to the moon" is a 1930s Ulster expression for "to lose one's temper"; and to "go tromboning" is to have sexual intercourse.
Of course, if Green really wanted to save space, he could remove anything offensive: but then he'd hardly have a book left. In his introduction he touches on the problems facing the modern lexicographer, at a time when some US dictionaries are, for instance, expunging racially offensive terms. He notes that while Partridge would not spell out "dirty words" in early editions of his dictionary, he included a plethora of racial insults without indicating their derogatory nature. Sixty years on, the slang lexicographer can include any sexual language, but race is much more tricky. The upshot is that this dictionary, like the most recent edition of the OED, indicates that certain terms are insulting. In his introduction, Green briefly wonders why this should apply only to racial terms, rather than to those referring to homosexuals, the disabled, the stupid and so on. But having brandished the opener to the can of worms, he puts it back in the drawer.
A passing reference to Lenny Bruce, who sincerely, idealistically and quite erroneously believed that bandying around the word "nigger" would destroy its evil force, perhaps hints at Green's own liberal instincts. As it must, the dictionary finds room for more than a page of terms derived from the "n-word", mostly American. Here we begin to see why slang brings disapproval. If the racial terms are abhorrent, so too are many of the sexual words. The misogyny in some of these terms still shocks, even as the inventiveness of others raises a smile.
It's a cliche of reviewing to say that every page of a book includes something of interest, but here the word "interest" is barely adequate. Every page here includes something fascinating. Just as in the OED, every page introduces us to different cultures, different times, different classes and professions and different ways of life. This dictionary is strongly recommended, whether for reference or simple entertainment. Only a wazzock, a wiffle-woffle or a woojang could possibly disagree.
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LE Lundbergföretagen AB is an investment company, which manages and develops other companies. It operates through the following segments: Lundebergs Real Estate Operations, Lundbergs Equity Management, Hufvudstaden and Holmen. The Lundbergs Real Estate Operations and Hufvudstaden segment comprises of leasing of own properties. The Lundbergs Equity Management segment comprises of dividends from equities and securities trading. The Holmen segment engages in the forestry ad power operations and manufacture and sell of printing paper, paperboard and timber products. The company was founded by Lars Erik Lundberg in 1944 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. More »
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