Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taubman concluded that "Although warning may be a handicap in the world of musical comedy, lively minds aren't. Through Mr. Segal and Mr. Raposo the new Harvard generation may move into broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors have swarmed into Washington." Most captious of the reviewers was Judith Crist of the Herald-Tribune, who complained that the musical reminded her of a Hasty Pudding show. The perspicacious Miss Crist then added, "Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo, two Harvard men.... did indeed concoct the Hasty adding...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--Trumbull College's touch football six over-came the handicap of numb hands and a slippery football to slap a 38-18 shellacking on Dunster House for the touch football championship of the world here this afternoon...
...HAVE said that Baldwin is intro-respective. He is also extremely self-conscious, and the combination produce in him a state of near hyper-sensitivity, toward both himself and others. This could be a crippling handicap; and even with Baldwin sensitivity does have drawbacks. One of these is a near-obsession with certain aspects of being a Negro. Probably the most evident is sex: the question of Negro sexuality arises again and again, each time in a new context...
...great-grandsons (see chart): a doughty, walnut-hued, four-year-old gelding named Kelso, who runs like an antelope, eats like a longshoreman (10 qt. of oats daily), and is hooked on sugar cubes. The only race Kelso has lost this season was the Washington Park Handicap, in which he finished fourth on a slippery track, under top weight of 132 lbs. Running against the best distance and weight-carrying horses in the nation, Kelso has won the Brooklyn. Suburban and Metropolitan Handicaps, the Whitney Stakes, the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Woodward Stakes-under imposts as high...
...just rejoined her family, is so shy and bewildered in the mortal world that she is unable to answer questions, and has difficulty climbing stairs, since as a goddess she was always carried up and down. Most of the ex-goddesses turn into unhappy old maids. Their handicap in husband-hunting: the rigidly held belief that the man who ends the virginity of a former Kumari will die after six months...