Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within two years, Coach Caldwell lifted the alumni out of their grumps by winning his first Big Three title (over Harvard and Yale), then did it again in 1948 and 1949. This season, Caldwell has had old Tigers purring like cats knee-deep in cream. Scorning the T-formation and using a juggernaut single wing with buck laterals (TIME, Nov. 6), Caldwell guided Princeton to its fourth straight Big Three title, first Ivy League title in 15 years, first undefeated season in the same length of time, and unchallenged ranking among the top teams...
...spirit of the occasion, however, forming solemn cliques around the new cars to discuss compression ratios and transmission. These connoisseurs sustained a notible sobriety in the midst of so much bubble gum, as they added wrinkles of their own to the rigors of Chevrolet's road test. The "knee test" figured frequently in this scrutiny: the test consists of placing one knee squarely in the middle of a door panel and pressing violently inward. The metal is then judged on rebounding quality and resonance. This kind of test is necessarily performed in the open, but some are more surreptitious especially...
...resemblance to his master in Peking. Where Mao is fat, moonfaced, stooped and aging (at 57), Wu is well-knit, slant-headed and fortyish. Wu's hands were clasped in the lap of a cheap black suit. As many Orientals do, he betrayed his tension by nervous knee-knocking. When he rose, Austin quickly had his answer: Wu offered war or surrender. Not his knees, but a large part of the free world's were knocking before he finished...
...Broken Knee. Balanchine is also a first-class musician. Although he never performs in public, his friend Igor Stravinsky insists that his piano playing is of "concert" caliber; on occasion, he has taken baton in hand, conducted the New York City Ballet orchestra in ballet performances. At 46, a U.S. resident for 17 years and a citizen for twelve, he is also, beyond doubt, the finest living choreographer. No one today can equal the lyric grace of his inventions, the cool classicism of his abstract designs. Totting up all of his various qualities, the Nation's exacting...
Last week Choreographer Balanchine got back to the first order of his artistry: for the first time since he broke his knee on a Paris stage more than 20 years ago, he danced in public. His worshipful City Center audience, the most faithful and fervent in Manhattan, could hardly get enough...