Word: hoyt
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...also braved the rain to participate in the Reid Trophy at Boston College, but was only able to place fifth out of six teams competing. By winning just two out of ten races, Harvard bested only the University of Vermont. Next weekend, the Crimson will attempt to capture the Hoyt Trophy at Brown, the Smith Trophy at MIT, and the Nelson Trophy at Connecticut College. —Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...
Until last year, when New York Yankees Pitcher Waite ("Schoolboy") Hoyt died grudgingly at 84, he served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...
...time, gets dressed up only for special occasions. He postpones haircuts as long as possible. "I used to be well-groomed," he says ... Since he sleeps only when he is sleepy, he calls up his lieutenants at all hours of the night. Sometimes he identifies himself as Mr. Hoyt. He has had a number of other aliases ... He likes to make business appointments in out-of-the-way spots, usually at night, and he is always 30 minutes to two hours late, if he shows up at all. --TIME, July...
...prompts a professor to praise her, which in turn prompts Charlotte to repeat, mantra-esque, the title of the novel in an annoying self-esteem boosting fashion. The downs involve her navigating the pitfalls of Dupont’s social scene, including a particularly harrowing libidinal run-in with Hoyt Thorpe, in which Wolfe uses words like “mons pubis” and “ball-peen hammer” to describe genitalia...
...their stories collide towards the novel’s end. There are times when Wolfe veers towards originality in characterization, as when Jojo accepts Charlotte’s promptings and enrolls in difficult classes in an attempt to break the mold his creator has set for him; or when Hoyt, for a few pages, seems like he might carry a glimmer of redemption. Yet the rivers of characterization rut deep in Charlotte Simmons, and deviating from their firmly established course does not go beyond tiny rivulets of original writing...