Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dennis suffers the penalty of being too good. Opposing teams and fans ride him hard when a behind-the-back pass goes astray or a shot taken while moving away from the basket does not go in. In the Wesleyan game he seemed affected by the shouting of a group of fans...
...speed which Shepard feared became evident as Holy Cross scored time and time again off a three-against-two fast break. The Crusader's weaving offense off Kielley's pivot often sprung men loose under the basket; that it was effective is demonstrated by the fact that every man on the first team had between eight and 14 points...
Warm Milk. Room One contained four paintings for which the Met had awarded $8,500 in prizes. The awards were all safe as warm milk; granted to men who had won many prizes before, they ran the gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid...
Dennis, whose father graduated from the College in 1928 and the Business School in 1930, is a spectacular ball-handler who fools opponents by dribbling behind his back and shooting while going away from the basket. Freshman coach Floyd Wilson calls him, "a very fine leader with a wonderful attitude...
...automatons you describe? Could it be that some forsake the ways of the Pharisees and do not seek to conform to whatever this "Yale Man" is that you mention (and of which no one I know has heard) I Could it be that your writers operated from a Socratic basket in mid-air, trying to make the worse appear the better analysis...