Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building itself, decorated with Teddy Roosevelt's African game trophies (since sold to bargain-hunting undergraduates), oak paneling, and coat of arms, there was opportunity for a real Harvard club. Its basement held a large room with eighteen billiard tables where a member could obtain free instruction from "a well-known professional." A kitchen, a printing office, and some rooms of the CRIMSON completed this floor. Above in the hall now used as freshman dining rooms, was a living room. An athletes' training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled...
...Large Billiard Table" color and pattern tie the composition together, while the changing point of view from two to three dimensionality pulls it apart. For all the brilliance of these paintings, it is "Wheatfield"--a small work compared to the others--which is the most eccentric, and the most subtle and fascinating in its daring use of materials and sophisticated intentions...
Hunt is an emotional arsonist who starts fires in others simply to watch them burn. Semple becomes his natural prey. Hunt constantly involves him in schoolyard beatings without ever fighting himself. He goads Semple into cramming a billiard ball into his mouth, dislocating his jaw. Finally Hunt taunts him into a shed where Hunt's own girl lies, ready to seduce him. Semple finds the confrontation so frightening that he loses all hold on rationality, murders the girl, and is committed as criminally insane...
According to one gambler, Leverett House poker is "a family affair." Jock, who organized the game, went to Lechmere Sales last fall and bought a poker table. It is octagonal, covered in billiard-green felt. There is a small well in front of each player to hold his chips. The table cost $42, so Jock sold $6 shares to seven friends. Two percent of each evening's winnings are set aside for cards and cokes. There is a list of about 50 players and their phone numbers are tacked to the side of the table. Most of the players...
...Negro servants in white coats and black bow ties. A servant calls a club man "Mr. Bradley," and a club man calls a servant "Thomas." After dinner, the club men retire to their walnut-panelled parlor to talk, smoke cigars and sip coffee. Then they wander off to the billiard tables downstairs or to the studies and library upstairs. Everything is refined and muted and comfortable...