Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVERY YEAR for the past 16 years, alumni fundraisers for the Harvard College Fund have gathered for a weekend in Cambridge. They dine in Eliot House, listen in rapture as Harvard administrators propound on educational issues of the day, drink up and head out to cheer on the football team, sitting in the very stadium their tax deductible contributions will help rebuild in the next few years...
...brilliance. I came back after the second mile and heard rustling in the bushes. It was Ed Sheehan down on his hands and knees and I no longer congratulated myself on my brilliance. "With Sheehan out of the running, it was all over except for the Bronx Cheer...
...crowd will stand and cheer with glee...
...CONDUCTOR who preferred a Bronx cheer to apathy would likewise probably prefer to be remembered as an egotist--that he wasn't--than be forgotten. For with his quirks and bitter sarcasm we inevitably associate his idiosyncratic genius and adventurous spirit--sometimes fatal to the ambitious musician's career, but always vital...
...sing what she later called "ungodly raw" songs in Southern black nightclubs. A decade later she started performing for white folks, and was already known as "Queen of the Blues" when Irving Berlin heard her at Harlem's Cotton Club and cast her in As Thousands Cheer. A tremendous hit, she went on to the dramatic roles she preferred, including that of Berenice Sadie Brown, the compassionate and eloquent cook in both stage and screen versions of The Member of the Wedding. In 1951 she published His Eye Is on the Sparrow, a frank, resentful, sordid account...