Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOG showed greater wisdom in next essaying Bach's Coffee Cantata and Locke's masque Cupid and Death. Both are works of high quality readily stageable and technically rather easy--well within the grasp of student performers. Yet the participants adopted so cavalier and irresponsible an attitude toward preparation that the result was an insult to the audience and, uniquely in Harvard's post-War theatrical history, managed to achieve total disaster. When, near the masque's end, the principals were poised in the balcony arches above the Fogg Court, one felt a nearly unconquerable desire to yell, "Jump...
...lose easily, and I pitch that way." he says. "You can't be content with halfway measures. I start every game intent on a no-hitter. When they get a hit, I try for a one-hit shutout. We baseball players live pretty high on the hog, and for 2 or 2½ hours on the ball field you can really...
...Home!" "I deny that I am a recluse," he once wrote a friend. "Neither am I an unsociable hog." But when a feature writer wanted his views on art, he testily wrote: "I suppose you think I am . . . interested in art. That is a mistake. I care nothing for art." If a visitor knocked at his door, he would yell, "Mr. Homer is not at home." Gradually, Homer became so isolated that he had to hire a local man to call on him each morning just to make sure he was still alive...
...What [democracy's] critics now affirm is that its preferences are inveterately for the inferior . . . Vulgarity enthroned and institutionalized, elbowing everything superior from the highway, this, they tell us, is our irremediable destiny; and the picture-papers of the European Continent are already drawing Uncle Sam with the hog instead of the eagle for his heraldic emblem...
...play was California's hapless Governor Pat Brown, who finally, on convention eve, openly endorsed Jack Kennedy. But Johnson had long since conceded that the Kennedys had Pat Brown hog-tied. As it has in many another convention, the real make-or-break power focused on Pennsylvania's 81 votes, presided over by Governor David Leo Lawrence, a tough, old-line boss who could make his influence stick if he wanted to. Dave Lawrence's heart be longed to Adlai Stevenson. Early in the game his mind took him toward Symington because he thought that Jack Kennedy's Catholicism would...