Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic and political configurations this would create have not, I would guess, gone unnoticed in Washington, London or Moscow. Neither London nor Moscow wants to see such a force arise. Now begins the game...
...fact remains that, for all the team's success and for all the inherent appeal of the game, soccer continues to be played before a select few--coach Bruce Munro, substitutes, and the participants' girl friends and immediate families. For most others, the entire game is an anathema. Harvard men hesitate to inflict their dates with the discomfort of sitting through four 22-minute quarters of a largely incomprehensible contest, usually in the cold of a Saturday morning...
Still, most of the non-believers are people who have never sampled the wares. The game has a tremendous fascination for anyone who likes fast action, suspense, and stiff competition. Those who have never joined the close-knit community of devoted soccer fans in the first few hours of a fall weekend have missed one of the finest moments Harvard athletics has to offer...
...other major sport is the spectator so intimately connected with the events of the game. Players wander among the crowd, the stands are within ten feet of the field, and the absence of protective equipment renders nearly every participant's expression visible to the observers...
...strength of the film lies in its patchwork humor: rock 'n' roll in an air raid shelter, the Fenwickian girls waiting for the victorious American soldiers with signs, such as "Gum Chum," and Big Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...