Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever cast as the leading man. Alan Lerner writes for protaganists who are mild-mannered yet tough, such as Rex Harrison or Richard Burton. Jourdan never goes beyond politeness, and hence he is penalized by being left blacked out at the side of the stage like some naughty hockey player while the English revelries are taking place. While passable on the romantic numbers, his voice lacks both the power required for the showstoppers and the philosophic tone needed for others. Worst of all, his explanations of psychoanalytic theory find him more confused than Daisy...
...rolling merrily across a field-apparently with nobody at the wheel. "Jim was told he must never do that again," says Mrs. Clark. "But you can't watch an active boy all the time, can you?" Shipped off to private school, Jim learned all about rugby, cricket, field hockey, golf-and not much else. So he quit at 16 and went home. "Normally there were two shepherds on the farm," he recalls, "but one of them had left just about the time I came home. My father bought me a dog and a stick and said, 'Right...
Although Harvard played championship hockey and baseball in '15, the men of the College were berated for "Harvard Indifference." The castigation came to a head when the baseball team trounced Princeton 3-0 "without the aid of a single organized cheer...
...those "wheels" in an "upper-crusty, hockey-playing school for boys" (St. Paul's), and I came to Duke with the express purpose of getting away from the sham of New England education. I'm not saying that Harvard and Yale are not good schools, but as far as undergraduate work is concerned, nearly every college is a "good school...
Winning their first five games and eleven of their last nine this year, including a 7-1 pasting of Yale, Harvard's freshman hockey team compiled a 14-4-1 record and won the Ivy League title...