Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often the toughest negotiating for an agent is in trying to land a star client. Some enlist the help of teammates with the promise that the agency will make a sizable contribution to the player's alma mater. Other agents play the wine-and-dine game. Halfback Chris Gilbert of the University of Texas felt he was being red-dogged by agents all season long. "If you even sounded interested," he says, "they'd get you anything you wanted. Pro Sports threw a party in New York for the All America team, and there must have been...
Occasionally, Miss Frame breathes life into her tale of death with her poet's gift of language. Indeed, the best part of the novel is an interlude of exuberant Joycean punning when Godfrey's death-scrambled brain cannot help turning words inside out. For example, he reads "The Drol's Pryer...
Perhaps also, Mr. Horowtiz, another signer of the letter, does not remember discussing the required pro-seminar with the CRIMSON and saying, "nobody likes the course, it's very abstract and very general." Whether the students' suggestions that they be allowed to help write the syllabus and choose the reading list constitutes a "complete overhaul" of the course is, of course, open to debate. Surely Miss Kyle, a third signer of the letter, remembers saying Monday night that "the consensus of the meeting was that the required courses be made much more flexible...
...team has found a partial solution to the maintenance problem: Cliffies. At the Cornell game, a contingent of three walked the horses between periods. Some girls even help exercise the ponies, although playing the game still remains an all-male enterprise...
Says president Kline, "All girls are horse-crazy at some point in their lives. Any who have the vernal urge are welcome to come help us with spring cleaning...