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...deadlock. A marker by B.U.'s Clopeck at 1:03 of the final period sent the Terriers into a short-lived lead, but at 4:11 Sears dented the nets for the Crimson on an assist from behind the goal by Sid Greeley to knot the score...
...eleven surged back in the third period, after an exchange of punts had placed them on the Crimson 29 yard line, when Davis plunged over from the three to knot the count at 6 to 6. A pass attempt for the point after touchdown was incomplete...
...original texts of The Irrational Knot, Cashel Byron's Profession and An Unsocial Socialist, all long out of print, are now available in a single volume (omitted: Immaturity and Love among the Artists). As novels they are pretty poor; Shaw himself observed that they were "just readable enough to be intolerable." But the three taken together are Victorian documents, and give a good idea of the audacious, irreverent young Shavian mind...
...Irrational Knot (1880), longest and woodenest of the three, is mostly about the hazards of marriage. It abounds in high-toned dialogue: "'Oh, Marmaduke! How dare you speak so of your betrothed.' " But even at 24, Shaw was already crusading (in this case against closed bedroom windows), commenting boldly on sex and sin, fluttering the gentry with open references to radicalism, atheism and the newfangled device called the electric light...
...Park Avenue" concerns itself with top-drawer sassiety and the casual interpretation of the marriage knot which has long been characteristic of stage aristocrats. Through two overdrawn acts, Mrs. Sybil Bennet of Oyster Bay joins a covey of her lady friends in pulling off matrimonial deals and counter-deals fairly devastating in their nonchalance...