Word: bengal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DISTANT THUNDER. Satyajit Ray's movies all have the shimmering, unhurried feeling of a long, waning afternoon. This one, about the early years of World War II in Bengal and the beginnings of the 1943 famine, shows the grace and calm authority of his best work, as well as his ability to shape great themes into h man drama without reducing them. Ray flirts with melodrama here, but Distant Thunder gathers a quiet force that makes most objections incidental. Better even than its treatment of the reality of poverty is the way Ray handles the subtle shifts it causes...
Although Magruder was only a middling student who did not do enough reading, Coffin says he was "very fond" of him. Indeed, he observes, "the real moral of this story may be that to do evil, you don't need to be a Bengal tiger. It is sufficient to be a tame tabby...
...Bengal midfield mettle began to show in the fourth quarter. In return, the Crimson corps of Garth Ballantyne, John Flood, Rick Carey, Al Costello, Frisbie, Anderson, and Tom Johnsen, played its most brutal period of the season, totalling Tigers and gobbling ground balls...
...Bengal attack did its mostest, as catty Bill Chaires popped in one, though, as Pettit fed middie Phil Hooper, and as Pettit scored unassisted, to close the gap to 10-8 with five minutes...
Semler joined the Tiger coaching ranks in September 1972 and last year directed the Bengal freshmen to a 15-5 record. He must have impressed a lot of people down in Tigerland, because it didn't take long for the Princeton athletic department to decide that it would much rather entrust the fate of the varsity to Semler rather than extending the horror show overseen by Quackenbush...