Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That simple question, to which almost any layman would answer yes, gets a fast and furious no from many of today's esthetes. Even to ask it in arty circles is to sound like a hick or a troublemaker. Selden Rodman, who is neither, uses it to kick off one of the most provocative art books in years (The Eye of Man; Devin-Adair; $10). His own answer-affirmative-rattles the lattices of a hundred ivory towers...
Evangelist Graham's sponsor was CICCU-the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union-called "Kick You" by both its friends and enemies. The 400 undergraduate members stimulate many of their fellow students and dons to snorts of irritation at their frankly anti-intellectual attitude and their assurance that they alone have the Gospel of Christ. "Why, didn't you know?" said one classics student last week. "In Cambridge, Christ is the property of CICCU." "But you can't enter into CICCU's Christ," said another, "because they have only one part of Him-the crucified part...
...poetry as a prelude to a $50-a-plate champagne supper and literary auction this week, then lined up guests and sponsors to pay for the supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed Lannan.) One Manhattan lawyer coldly refused to help...
Yale, receiving the second half kick-off, took possession on the Harvard 49. The offense stalled on the 43, and the Elis punted to Harvard...
After the kick-off, Fogarty and Lubetkin took over for Winthrop. Alternating hand-offs to Lubetkin with passes to Lubetkin, Fogarty moved his team 94 yards in seven plays to the Calhoun three yard line. The Elis held, but were forced to kick, and on third down Fogarty passed to Lubetkin for the winning touchdown...