Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, already allows PT credit for such "carry-over" sports as pistol and rifle, cricket and karate, and, upon application, for such other esoteric activities as Radcliffe volleyball and dancing classes, Loeb Theatre musical productions and donations to the PBH blood drive. Two freshmen received credit for SCUBA diving in the IAB pool last year, a third for his riding lessons at Beverley...
Swann is a bespectacled cricket on a piano bench. He and his piano both chirp. Flanders, confined to a wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks...
...eastern shores of the Adriatic. To find identical cuts of wood, U.S. Luthier Fernando Sacconi scavenged demolition sites in Italy last summer and salvaged planking from 400-year-old houses. To duplicate the seasoned willow that Stradivari used for braces, one U.S. luthier uses polo balls and broken cricket bats from England, or Lombardy poplar from the crates in which bottles of Chianti are shipped from Italy...
...River, those two would literally fight for the privilege of taking the oars. To this day, Julie is naturally a country girl. There is nothing she likes better than to get down here, tramping about, shedding it all, serving tea with the local ladies at a cricket match...
...Caribbean, Barbados has never been out of English hands since it was settled in 1627. Driving is on the left; neat hedges or stone walls mark property lines; the effective civil service and the police are very British; there is tea at 4, and everyone is keen on cricket. In fact, everything is so teddibly, teddibly British that the capital of Bridgetown has a Trafalgar Square, complete with statue of Lord Nelson, that was built before London...