Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitching strength, the crucial factor in almost every game this season once again told the story of Saturday's match. All five Harvard pitchers in the game were unimpressive, continually going to high counts against batters, while walking a total...
Harvard also had a good day at the plate as Curt Tucker singled and tripled in two at bats, Pete Varney reached first base five times, and Dan DeMichele added three safeties. The deciding factor in the game was Harvard's inability to drive in men on base...
...Bead Game's sudden emergence as a full-grown rock group of overwhelming intensity and power is like seeing a super-group grow up in your backyard. It would seem to be near-criminal to pass them...
...CENTRAL feature of this devastating carnival is a game devised by Michael in which each person places a phone call to the one person "he has truly loved." As the characters take their turns, they simultaneously expose secret reserves of despair almost unbearable to watch...
Michael, perhaps the most "anxious queer' of them all, uses the game as a device to make all the others share in the self-hatred he feels at being a homosexual. While he hopes that "not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story," he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gray corpse"). He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like the rest of them...