Word: cues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crane evokes the days of billiards in private drawing rooms, played by aristocrats in smoking jackets. In fact, Crane had his own miniature pool table at the age of eleven, a gift from his lawyer father. Ebullient Machine Gun, so nicknamed because of his rapid-fire technique with a cue, was even more precocious. He had his own table when he was only seven; that was when his mother died and the pool room that his father owned became little Lou's playroom...
...points on fouls). It was enough to make Crane break his stoic silence. "That's just a lot of luck," he muttered to a nearby spectator. It became Crane's turn again. He dipped his fingers in talcum powder, sipped some water and hunched over his cue. Forty-nine times he hunched; 49 times the cue jabbed forward; 49 successive times a ball disappeared into a pocket. Machine Gun never got a chance to reload...
...toward what ends the Houses should aim. On the basis of past administrative actions, there is reason to doubt that this question will be answered meaningfully, despite the earnest, even redundant, investigative efforts of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE...
...more reports on the role of tutors in the Houses will be forthcoming soon, one by Burbank and one currently under preparation for the CUE by Assistant Professor Regina M. Kyle and David Oxtoby...
...CUE Report, based on questionnaires circulated to residential tutors, will be ready in about a month. Preliminary findings may be reported to CUE in two weeks. The questionnaire tries to determine: the number of tutees associated with each tutor; the number of sections for which each tutor may be responsible; and the feelings of tutors with regard to tutorials in the Houses, extended informal contact with other students in their areas, and the current duties of the residential tutors in the Houses. As of a week ago, however, only 30-40 per cent of the residential tutors had replied...