Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheer beauty of the campus quickly strikes the visitor. Its buildings, placed in a spacious setting of grass-covered hills, are constructed in an impressive modernistic style. The comfortable living quarters, which have been patterned on the English model, have much in common with the Harvard houses. Each of five "halls"--one for women, four for men--has its own dining room, sports facilities, social activities, and student government, and inter-hall competition is keen on many fronts. As at Lowell House, the hall dining rooms feature high tables--small but significant reminders of a larger debt owed by both...
Unfortunately, there are a few squares loitering in the tall grass. Actor Granger strides up answering to the name of Harry Black, a famed hunter hired by the government to dispatch the tiger. He quickly corners the beast and is squeezing his finger on the trigger when a Land Rover roars by and scares it away. Drat! To make matters worse, behind the wheel of the Rover is an old war buddy (Anthony Steel), whom Harry Black treats with untropical coolness. After a couple of flashbacks, the viewer learns why: not only did Steel's cowardice...
Thomas Weisbuch, like Sandy, contents himself in "The Last Letter to Monsieur Falbriard" with tracing a neat image, although the poem suffers from one or two technichal mistakes, confusions of grammar and image. Still, Weisbuch is capable of turning phrases as clean as "The grass that blazed/Each morning out by my window." He is the only undergraduate printed in this issue...
...reporters accustomed to sprints and serves, pitches and passes, it was rarely more exciting than watching grass grow. Between yawns, the New York Herald Tribune's, Columnist Red Smith got off a series of wryscracks that hearkened back to Ring Lardner and 1920: "Next to being smitten on the brow with a bung starter, there is no more effective soporific than watching a pair of sailboats race for the America's Cup. It is a spectacle calculated to make the tea break in a cricket test seem wildly exciting...
...only can one play tennis at the clubs, but also many industries provide courts for their employees. "We played on the Rolls Royce grass courts," Weld noted. In general, he added, "they gave us a better fight in doubles all over England." Thus to prepare for the Prentice Cup singles, the team constantly played test matches with one another...