Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wrong. John Updike, self-appointed myth-maker of the New York and Boston bedroom community, menacingly shakes a coffee cup and a lone sock at you and growls, "You don't have problems. You have PROBLEMS. BIG PROBLEMS. And they all MEAN SOMETHING. Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...
...though the performers want to tell the audience. "We promised you nothing more than a collection of Jacques Brel songs, and here they are." There's a feebly executed but well-meaning attempt to create coffee-house atmosphere--the audience trades its ticket stubs during intermission for a cup of coffee and a croissant--but the floodlit cavernous Leverett dining hall offers little in the way of bohemian squalor or continental chic...
Four Winthrop fumbles led to the demise of the defending Straus Cup champions, and neither team could control the tempo. The closest any team could come to paydirt was a Mather drive to the "Throp five, but time ran out in the first half before the offense could push it over...
Marlow said, "there is a certain segment in Cambridge society that does not like pinball arcades." "It's not their cup of tea and they'd like to see my operation closed down," he added...
...year-old cup is the oldest inter-collegiate rivalry in North America; this year McGill was outmatched by the Harvard team. The Crimson forwards dominated the throw-ins and scrums as Keith Oberg, the hooker, won 85 per cent of the hooks and allowed the scrum to win the ball consistently...