Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although over twelve of Walter Camp's All-Americans confronted each other on the field, only Yale's old Mr. Everything, captain Ted Coy, starred...
Yale used five key penalties against Harvard and Coy's high punts to keep the Crimson in poor field position, but the Elis could never muster a drive of their own to penetrate farther than the Crimson...
...Lebanese immigrant, Tiny was born as Herbert Khaury in New York City 35 or 40 years ago (he is coy about his exact age). After high school, he began performing at night under such names as Larry Love and Deny Dover in dreary Greenwich Village bars. Since becoming a regular two years ago at a midtown nightspot called The Scene, he has risen to the status of court jester in the local realm of camp. Now six network television appearances, and the recent release of his first record album, have helped place him in a cultish tradition, that goes back...
Surgeon Thomas LaFarge also brought moments of wit to The Lampoon with his slogan "Forget Vietnam! See The Meat-Cleaver Man!" and his description and catalogue of mutilations that can spare American youth "the indignities of conscription." Similarly revivifying was the poem inspired by Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" which Dr. La Farge dedicated to the CRIMSON...
...pundits, the most confused and contused victims of this year's roller-coaster politics are the writers and publishers of campaign books. Warehouses are crammed with tons of tomes outdated by events. Writers, editors and printers are scrambling to keep pace with the mercurial exits, abrupt entrances and coy waitings-in-wings of the 1968 candidates. Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of Cowles newspapers saw his George Romney: Mormon in Politics rolling off the presses just as the Michigander's presidential hopes were being buried in New Hampshire. Said Mollenhoff: "Now I know how it felt to build an Edsel...