Word: connor
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Meanwhile, Harvard's main Ivy opponent, Penn, is having a few problems. It beat an unusually weak Princeton team by only five points, and two of its top five men may miss the Heps next week in New York. Sophomore Frank O'Connor will definitely miss the rest of the season, while Elliot Rodgers is bothered by a fatigue fracture...
Young helped lead the marches and took his share of arrests and beatings. He was in charge of the demonstration the day in 1963 that Birmingham's Bull Connor set dogs on the marchers. But it was as a behind-the-scenes man, a bargainer, that he made his mark. He helped to construct the settlements of racial disputes in Birmingham and Selma and was a negotiator in the hospital strike in Charleston; he was the mediator in Resurrection City who tried to unite blacks, Mexican Americans and Indians...
Their fifth man, Frank O'Connor, finished ten seconds later and yelled, "We did it!" as he slapped both of Rodgers's hands...
...break apart the components of "the big lie." Pusey says we call Harvard hopelessly bigoted. This, as it intends, summons images of Birmingham, Alabama, and Sheriff Bull Connor spitting juice from his "Mail Pouch" chewing tobacco. And of course Pusey is right. Harvard does not look like that. It wears a coat and tie, and on a broad-based scale, it is less reprehensible than some other forces in society. But racism is practiced here, in its liberal dress. A prime example is the issue of the painters' helpers...
These plays are for sophisticates, but Kevin O'Connor's performance is for everyone who ever cared about superior acting. His gregarious presence epitomizes the actor as host. Each playgoer is a guest at his party; he means the party to swing, and it does...