Word: cage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landing on him. It has bedded down this master of loud sounds in pointless noise; it has surrounded this demon of driving energy with feckless hullabaloo. The effect is of a nightclub talent not so much fighting his way out of a musicom-edy frame as out of a cage-and of having to elude a posse until it is so winded it lets him be the whole show...
...only gray spot on the scene is dirty snow. Munro has put his squad outside only twice, both times on the asphalt parking lot in front of Briggs Cage--"about the worst conditions imaginable," according to Munro. The rest of the time the varsity has done stick work in the Cage and run laps. "Skillwise we're ahead of last year," he says, "but conditionwise, who can tell...
Still the "Paycock." Yet there is precious little laughter in the four short stories with which O'Casey ends his book. Each of the tales pictures a helpless bit of humanity fluttering in the cage of need. Best of the lot is I Wanna Woman, in which a young Londoner, whose girl friend fails to keep a date, spends the night with a Piccadilly prostitute and wakes to a racking hangover of disgust and remorse...
...examine university education came in the last few minutes, during a meeting of the deans with President Pusey. The subject of the round table talk, "How applied should a University education be?" had appeal to both the public and to educators. But the time spent at the track, the cage, the river, and the rink left little for the Deans. They could do little but generalize and, as President Pusey did, quote from President Eliot--"Truth and right above utility." They were followed by Professor Emeritus Samuel Eliot Morrison in an interesting talk on the "Veritas" and buildings...
...which he gives readily) he is quiet-spoken, impassive, with no trace of emotion except, occasionally, a quick, bland smile that, says one correspondent, "crinkles his face like that of a boy who knows where the pot of jam is hidden." When talking, he likes to make a little cage of his hands, fingertips against fingertips...