Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Festivities are slated for almost every minute of the hectic two days, with everything from baseball to theater events waiting for the couples. Groggy from the impact of mimeographed, shouted, and printed matter, the average Yardling is expected to rush from the Yale Freshman baseball game to theatre or cocktail before arriving at the evening affair...
Another aspect of Bert's effectiveness is the lifetime of technical perfection that he can bring to bear on the small problems that matter in crew. The "lifetime" is almost literal, for when he was born in Winsor, England, his father and three uncles, all champion punters, were waiting to impart to him all their love. Bert's father impressed the principles of coxing on him at nine by cracking his knuckles when he made a miscalculation. This is one teaching device that Bert has not found it expedient to carry over to the Harvard scene...
...genius is very much a thing of the present. In addition to making a single fly as though possessed, he can get in the tank and row any first-boat man into collapse. His aim, though, is not so much to demonstrate, or "teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive...
...home, having met his midnight deadline, and suspects that his review is not strictly on the beam throughout, but when the occasion demands, he becomes comforted by the supposition that a vital piece of music (and by implication a vital artist) is bound to register favorably some day, no matter what the critics say. It is no easy task to balance this theory with some stark and fully documented facts presented by Miss Olga Samaroff. To get booking with a decent manager these days, in a country full of budding Rubinsteins and Heifetzes, a young artist must have the good...
...Republican presidential aspirant told a news conference, however, that he is supporting the Senate approved version of the President's $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish aid program largely "because it is a matter of hiparliean foreign policy...