Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fine Arts offers the best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it did ten years...
...ever Katherine Hepburn had the perfect medium for her ability, she had it Monday night in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The play is full of witty yet wise side remarks that need her kittenish sophistication; she, in turn, is at her best in the vaporous atmosphere, the half-fantasy world of Arden Forest. The combination--Shakespeare and Hepburn--is nearly unbeatable for producing an evening's enjoyment...
...diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What about the boy who is refused admittance because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome...
...which beat St. Anselm's in the second game of last Saturday's double header, has impressed Shepard as being one of the best ball-handling teams in the East. The Eagles have a swift and shifty forward, Dick Fitzgerald, who prowled all over the court against St. Anselm's, intercepting passes and sparking an otherwise loose defense. BC plays a blood-and-thunder fast-break game, with flashy passing and tricky cuts at the basket...
...Records. The album of records accompanying Frankenberg's book is good & bad in about the same proportions as the book itself. Unfortunately, poets are not necessarily the best readers of their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...