Word: browning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes a team-wide collapse to get outscored by 24 in a half, but now the problem has the potential to ruin the team's confidence as it enters the most important part of the season. Harvard has five Ivy games left, with the last three--Brown, Penn and Yale--being the toughest...
Harvard is in a three-way tie for second place in the Ivy League, with No.17 Princeton and No.18 Dartmouth. Meanwhile, No.16 Brown (8-1, 4-0 Ivy) is alone atop the league standings...
...blueberry muffin and a cappuccino. "I think the cappuccino has all the necessary ingredients of the continuation of life," he'll assert later in the day, and insists on buying me one. The cappuccino is handed to us in paper cups, having shot, fully formed, out of a large brown machine with the push of a finger. If Mr. Morris noticed this lack of sophistication, which, considering the level of observation shown in his book, I'm sure he did, he didn't comment. He's much too polite for that. We sit in a vinyl booth, at a table...
...with his audience communication made each song unique. Wooten played all of his best material, from an almost beautifully tear-inducing "Amazing Grace" to "Norwegian Wood" to a funky version of "I Feel Alright." Monday night's break brought out the mellower, funkier side of Wooten. He played James Brown the way only he could, playing chords and thematic progressions in different time. Then, on Tuesday night, Wooten jammed for close to four hours and played four encores...
...first exercise in definitional rigor I would invite Lee to undertake is that between "irony" and "cynicism." In referring to "students who incessantly ask questions in lecture" who are wrongly labelled as "brown-nosers," Lee is talking about cynicism, not irony. Somehow Lee's commentary does not make me fear the breakdown of commitment in America, but the breakdown of the ability to think rigorously at one of America's universities...