Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, the four evil dudes that Harvard was basically concerned with last weekend turned out to be somewhat less terrifying than the Crimson had originally anticipated. It was Harvard's shocking offensive ineptness, and a ballhandling magician from Boston named Reginald Bird that sent the Crimson home emptyhanded from the yearly back-to-back crushers for the fourth consecutive winter...
Additionally, Harvard was being forced to spread its defense, giving Princeton numerous opportunities to do destructive work inside. Within three minutes, Taylor, Bird, John Berger and Dufty had put in easy layups, and Princeton led 50-45. When the score stood at 57-52 with 11:50 remaining, and Dufty, Berger and Rimol were all one foul away from disqualification. Tiger coach Pete Carril went to Bird, his ballhandler, and Harvard was done...
...senior guard pulled out his best Harlem Magicians tricks, and with the help of Manakas, froze the ball for two and a half minutes before Taylor put in an easy layup. After Harvard's James Brown hit a soft jumper. Bird stalled again, holding the ball for a minute, and sending Taylor inside, where he drew a foul. Princeton stalled again half a minute later, using up a minute and a half this time. Dufty drew a foul...
Americans rarely get a close-up look inside the Executive Mansion. Harry Truman showed television viewers around the newly renovated White House in 1952; since then, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Tricia Nixon have taken the nation on similarly memorable televised tours. This Christmas season, CBS cameramen and reporters were allowed into the secluded second-floor family living quarters to record White House preparations for the holidays. Viewers will see the Nixons' private tree; they will watch as Son-in-Law Eddie Cox is welcomed for his first Christmas at the White House, and get an unusual peek...
...fall of national greatness. In a still larger sense, the tent is emblematic of the vanity of human wishes-in art, in politics, in science, in business, in love, in life. As it flaps to the stage floor at the end of the play like a great wounded sea bird, one can almost hear the spectral voice of Ezra Pound: "Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down...