Word: drives
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...Department of Athletics, yet practice at venues supported by the Office for the Arts at Harvard. Their craft involves rules, competition, intense training, self-control, and teamwork—like many other sports—while also allowing for self-expression on a more sophisticated level than pure competitive drive. The Crimson Dance Team and Harvard Ballroom Dance Team fuse athletic competition with artistic interpretation, in a unique hybrid of art and sport...
...writing doesn’t do a better job of motivating his arguments, because he does occasionally make truly insightful observations. In a chapter titled “Hunting Instincts” he compares the theatrical experience to that of a hunt, insofar as the audience experiences a primal drive to follow the plot along. He uses this metaphor to account for the suspension of disbelief: “We suspend the rational process of intellectualization, which is to say, of the comparison of phenomenon to idea, which is a process too slow for the hunt...
...like this Hamilton project I’m working on. I’m not a founding father, I didn’t grow up during the Revolutionary War, but when I read Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, there was something about Hamilton’s drive to excel and to use words to excel that really spoke to me in a way and I said, “I know that guy.” It’s not necessarily about the specifics, but about really trying to connect with something that you feel like...
...Harvard pitcher also made two highlight-reel plays in the second inning, catching a hard-hit one-hopper off the bat of junior Will Davis. On the next play, Quaker senior Steve Grable hit a pitch hard up the middle to Eadington, who calmly knocked down the line drive and threw Grable out at first...
Harvard followed the four-run fourth with four more in the fifth, pulling ahead of the Quakers for good. Following a double by Albright, Way hit a long drive over the right field fence off of Penn sophomore Patrick Brennan to even the score at eight. Following hits by Reynolds and Zailskas and a walk to Rouches, O’Neill singled through the left side of the infield, scoring two runs that proved to be the difference in the game...