Word: cricketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Literature last year.* Born in Crete and author of some 30 novels, plays and books on philosophy, Kazantzakis is one of Greece's leading men of letters. When Zorba the Greek appeared in Britain seven months ago, British critics tossed cheers around like "well dones" at a cricket match. Said the Times Literary Supplement: "Mr. Kazantzakis . . . has created in Zorba one of the great characters of modern fiction." Said the New Statesman & Nation: "A minor classic." But the British still found it a bit puzzling. Observed the Observer's reviewer: "I enjoyed it so much that I wish...
Opening this season on April 25 with traditional rival Staten Island, the cricket team is smoothing out the pitch for a big schedule. Challenged by Harverford for the first time since its renaissance four years ago, the cricketers will also meet Yale, Princeton, M. I. T., General Electric, Penn State Wayfarers, British Embassy, Philadelphia, and West Indian clubs. Both Americans and foreign students will be welcomed at a meeting in the Eliot Junior Common Room tonight at 7:30, when the Club will weigh its chances for bettering last year's 3 and 1 record...
...Cricket, Too. His memoir is not merely a chronicle of a shy boy's woes. Orwell recognized that even in unhappy circumstances boys find ways to be happy, and lis story is brightened with recollections of butterfly hunts and cricket games that read as well as his darker pages...
...shoelaces. He is not supposed to ride in a boat (but excursion boats do a rollicking business at every seaside resort). He is not supposed to travel more than five miles away from home, nor go outside his own parish to watch a football game or cricket match...
...yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock. It was not long before, in the words of one who was there, "the locals were raising a proper bloody ruckus." For one thing, such goings-on were not cricket in the eyes of Lower Saxony farmers, whose own system of hunting is to grub about on foot with small whistles that imitate the cries of a rabbit, and then to pounce on the fox. They appealed to Herr Hans Lieberkuehn, Wolfenbüttel's local hunt master. Herr Lieberkuehn...