Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yovicsin is switching men, but not without caution. Harvard's defense is potentially the best in the league, and, except for the Cornell game, has held up well as it could be expected to. Yovicsin won't tamper with it witout necessity...
...offense is another story. It is also potentially the best in the Ivy Leagne, but only against Columbia, admittedly a weak opponent, did it put everything together for an extended period of time. It wil have to, this Saturday, Unless Hornblower and Ballantyne stay healthy, it probably may have trouble doing...
...team, despite having one more person, was definitely inferior. Before too long, we were behind, 21-0, as the quadruple reverses and deep passes overwhelmed us. But they had the best girl football player, a quarterback-linebacker named Jan Ann. She had the best arm of any of us, could kick a 24-yard field goal, and intercepted one of my passes. She was awesome. The females on our team were fairly unimpressed with our athletic ability. Our charming center, the captain, instructed us near the end to get some points on long passes and not worry about throwing...
ROBIN WOOD'S book, the best in English on Hitchcock, analyzes seven of his later films in terms of guilt and cleansing. For Wood Hitchcock's plots implicate his characters in some immoral action, often a murder, and then let them make restitution. Overcoming a psychological paralysis of spirit and action that characterizes guilty men. Hitchcock's characters increase their moral breadth through their confrontation with their capacity for evil. At the same time Hitchcock involves his audiences in the guilty action or in condemnation of the guilty man, then makes them reconsider this endorsement. Wood's structural analysis explains...
...individuals. Hitchcock's audience-manipulation, involving an attitude of superiority toward his viewers, generates the unpleasant feeling that his characters merely illustrate a narrow moral design-Hitchcock's. Only in Shadow of a Doubt, Under Capricorn, and Psycho do they act as whole people. These works, which realize the best tendencies of their period of Hitchcock, transcend his usual limitations by enlisting a more sympathetic audience identification with the characters. They feel unlike other Hitchcock...