Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horovitz has set the work in Harlem, on one particular morning when a black family of four wakes up to find themselves as white as the sun outside their 125th Street window. They achieved this color transformation, you see, with the help of some amazing pills sold to them by a Jewish pawnbroker who got them from God (who is black), (Or maybe you don't see- it doesn't matter...
...setting is a graveyard. The event is a funeral for a man named Cock Certain. It is a starry night, and four sad people have gathered to say goodbye to the man who breathed life into them all. These people- called Miss Indigo Jones, Robin Breast Western, Filigree Bones and Fibber Kidding- cannot agree on any specific facts concerning their dearly beloved, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is what they do agree on: It is all no use. No use to go on living in a world where all we can wait for is the inevitable senseless...
...Owls, however, will be trying to stop the Crimson with a stacked defense that sports four fullbacks. They don't have any outstanding performers, but are strong at all positions...
...Fullback John Lukaska dived over from the one yard-line four plays later, and Harvard led at halftime...
Harvard went nowhere in the third period, and when Ray Hornblower fumbled on the Crimson 23. Brown moved to the four and kicker Jim Colby booted a field goal to tie the game...