Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to reality. They no longer have to think about our 10 game streak, and they probably are more conscious of the fact that they cannot be sure of their near-invincibility, no matter what kind of streak local newspapers advertise as belonging to Harvard. It's hard to get up for games when you're always favored and now that Harvard isn't such a favorite, the team will get up in order to prove itself. Captain John Cramer said something along those lines Sunday afternoon...
...good to see Neil Hurley make another interception, and it was nice to see Dale Neal get 11 tackles. Ray Hornblower, one of Harvard's top passers, had another good day. One of the most exciting things he did against B. U. was streak down the left sideline on a Harvard punt, brush off Fred Barry of the Terriers, and dump the electrifying Mr. Taylor six yards farther back than where Taylor caught it. Yovicsin summed it all up: "Ray is really working," he said...
...attempt to get around the moral and political issues, but an attempt to have the Faculty face those issues," Mendelsohn said of his resolution. Another proponent argued that "Every action we have taken since April has a political content...
...get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant..." goes Arlo's now legendary song, which is both the inspiration and structural framework of the film. And you can. Alice and Ray, the couple that sets up home in a Stockbridge, Massachusetts church as the film begins, have everything: shelter and food and grass aplenty. And when Arlo and his friends, the misplaced and the homeless of American kids, come up to Stockbridge, they know there will be a home, sustenance, and love waiting for them...
...SONG tells us, "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, exceptin' Alice" -and that's the whole story. We can't get Alice. We can't get at that central heartbeat that is the real source of life any better than Richard Nixon can. And if we can't get at that, we might as well be dead. When Shelly discovers that he can't have Alice, he not only goes back to heroin, but he kills himself...