Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...players against each other in head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sport fan in the land. Still, when the ancient opponents take the field each year, a certain element exists which the trumped-up "big-time" clashes cannot equal--a hint of greatness, and a sprit of competition that has existed since 1875, when Harvard beat Yale, four goals and four touchdowns...
...concert's end, the audience crowded forward to congratulate Sénéchal, one fan pausing to extract a pack of Camels from beneath his powdered wig. At 28, Tenor Sénéchal, who will tour the U.S. after his private debut, is so much in demand that opera or concerts keep him busy five nights a week. Platée, he confessed last week over a post-performance glass of warm milk, is his favorite role, and the Varieties one of his favorite theaters. Unlike Fanny Kemble, he was delighted to be rubbing elbows with...
...show has many distressing disappointments. Calder, the grand Yankee sculptor whose works have for so long been characterized by their steady high quality, exhibits three mobiles but only one of them displays any of Calder's usual skill. The other two move only under strong provocation (I had to fan them with my notebook close by before they deigned to revolve) and when they finally do go into orbit, the objects don't describe a flexible and communicative arc in space...
President. That doesn't mean I would support him." Indiana's lone-wolf Republican Senator Homer Capehart, a Rocky fan in a Nixon state, came by to predict big things in Hoosierland...
...Carl Orff's lightly lyrical Carmina Burana, both conducted by Leopold Stokowski. The audience took to the double feature so enthusiastically that an additional performance was scheduled for last week. The season's second big hit: a superb production of Mozart's crystalline comic masterwork, Cosi Fan Tutte. Vienna-born Director Rudel, 38, is also offering the standards-Madame Butterfly, Boheme...