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...second half, Navy opened up offensively. Guard Jack Conrad, who finished with 24 points, led the way as Harvard, physically exhausted by its holiday road trip, let up and consequently had trouble scoring with its pattern offense...
Since Navy lacks rebounding strength and has good shooting guards-6' Jack Conrad and 6' 3" Richard Buff, it runs a shuffle offense that involves numerous picks to free backcourt men for jump shots. If Harvard anticipates these screens and picks, it should be able to weaken the Midshipmen's scoring threats...
...Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse to enjoy the odd lore about monsters and dragons as well as recurrent poetic devices-known as kennings-"whale's path" and "swan-road" for sea. For relaxation he is read to, mostly from favorite writers whom his intellectual admirers disdain: Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows differently for the blind," he admits. "It flows easier. I am not bored when I am alone. Circumstances are easily forgotten. A sleepless night is made up only of time, not thinking. I know two twilights: the twilight of the dove [morning] and the raven [evening...
...astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad Jr., Richard Gordon, Alan Bean...
Dead Anyway. The movie is well served by the shimmering, bleached-out color photography of Conrad Hall. It Is obvious from the opening scenes, however, that this is most deeply Director Polonsky's picture. Author of the remarkable script for Body and Soul ("Everybody dies!"), Polonsky made his directorial debut with another John Garfield movie, Force of Evil, in 1948. An ode to gangsterism and individual morality, it passed almost unnoticed on initial release. As a lifelong proponent of the sort of radical politics frowned upon during the witch hunts of the 1940s, Polonsky did not long escape...