Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet, for they are both powerful runners, would both be able to run strong anchor legs on their respective two mile relay teams. If Northrop does this, it will strengthen the Crimson relay outfit so much that they might easily win the race. The two other contenders in this classic mile run who will be well back of the three leaders, are another Ithacan, Bob Boynton, and an Eli, Holderness. Woodland is Yale's best miler, but he will have his hands so full trying to win his two mile specialty against the Cornell lads that he couldn't possibly...
...probed the reports of the Czarist police, therefore, his opinions of Pushkin's relations with the Decembrista may be regarded as based upon unassailable facts. Pushkin, in his estimate, emerges as a Liberal and thus both the Red and White Russians can claim him for their own, since the classic definition of a Liberal, according to Mr. Eugene Gordon, is one who weeps with the workers and wails with the boss. On the whole, however, it seems that Pushkin tended more towards the opponents of Czarism but, after all, he wrote eulogies of Peter the Great and Nicholas...
...that all able figure skaters have at their toe-tips. They count two-thirds of a contestant's total score. Free figures, improvisations selected by the contestants, count one-third. Contestants are judged partly on how closely the patterns made by their skates on the ice match the classic figures they attempt to execute, partly on the patterns made by their bodies moving through the air. Each skater does his figure three times, trying to superimpose each set of skate tracks on the last. To decide a close event, judges sometimes get down on their hands and knees...
...Stars (RKO) is Dudley Nichols' adaptation of Sean O'Casey's famed play about Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. As the prize exhibit in the repertoire of the Abbey Players, The Plough and the Stars long ago achieved the rating of a contemporary classic. Its grimy and discursive picture of Dublin life, as background for the grim story of its principals, made it a contemptuous portrait, almost a definition of Ireland before the Free State. The current version of The Plough and the Stars-in which Director John Ford was assisted by Arthur Shields...
...take away the original charm of a building in a modified Jacobean style (something like a simplified version of St. Catharine's), but something is left worth looking at. Otherwise the Harvard buildings are almost uniformly inconspicuous and undistinguished, with a few lapses into pomposity, mostly neo-neo-classic, and one real screamer which at first escapes my attention and which we may therefore leave till later...