Word: loree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above all, Yale football games--or more properly,Games. They are contest that can make or break any season that have a certain magical quality to them (how elsecould an unheralded end named Ted Kennedy have earned a spot in Harvard football lore than by scoring the lone touch down in 1955's 21-7 loss...
...would take a mighty good day on the gridiron, but if all goes well and the Crimson racks up plenty of yardage, Brownie could replace Jim Kubacki in the annals of Harvard football lore as the total offense leader. Right now, he trails Kubacki's 3042 total by 321 yards...
...gimmick. All you need is a gimmick to give the Harvard-Yale game its annual place of ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
...something about Elizabethen Age, you would do well to ask me" the retired Oxford don once wrote to a critic, and he was right. Volume after volume has testified to Rowse's intimacy with the 17th century. No sexual custom, no oddity of language or quirk of lore seems to have escaped his attention. Now he displays his wit and erudition in an extravagant three-volume work that has no precedent and is not likely to have successors. The Annotated Shakespeare has no restrictions; it suits the actor and the scholar, the general reader and the child. Its pictures...
...reminiscing is more than myth; it was from these garrulous sources that Crews acquired both his material and the lively idiom that animates his narrative. "A way of life gone forever out of the world" is recalled in these pages, enriched by a wealth of unlikely lore: how to estimate a mule's age, cook a possum, butcher...