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...soon as the outcome was obvious, the floor took on the appearance of a JV game. Brandeis, because it has less than 750 men, is allowed to use freshmen, and coach Rudy Finderson went whole hog, tossing four of them into the fray for the final five minutes...
...Manhattan. Connecticut Democrat Tom Dodd issued his own statement of principle: he was not about to go "whole hog'' on the Democratic platform, "merely because it was adopted by our party convention . . . Any attempt of a party convention to dictate to a President or a Congress concerning constitutional responsibilities cannot be countenanced...
...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...