Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talked to one young Cuban in a cafe. He used to be a professional baseball player and has applied to come to the United States. He has a girl living in Virginia whom he plans to marry. He talks about the impossibility of getting nice clothes, radios and watches in Cuba today. He says he has been waiting 18 months to get out, and thinks it will be another eight months at least. Since he has lost his job, his girl sends him Wilkinson Sword razor blades from the U.S., which he sells illegally for a dollar apiece...
...their cheering and lap-counting was instrumental in the recent record effort. But when Coach Bill McCurdy puts together a sophomore foursome--say of Roy Shaw, John Dugan, Tom Downer, and Colburn--to compete against the seniors...that'll be one January day when all the social unity and nice-guy fellowship will quickly disappear from Briggs Cage and a 7:45 record won't stand a chance...
...Finnegan falling--the breaking of the oosphere. 10a) "Man of" is a far more likely, and grammatical, interpretation of what the Beatles sing than "matter". 11) from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties...
Crimson forward Chris Gallagher took a nice feed from Jeff Grate ten seconds later and popped in a short turn-around jump shot to make the score 67-47. Navy started to slow down, and Harvard didn't score for another minute and a half. But neither did the midshipmen...
...Michaels' direction shows an especially sure touch for farcical slapstick business, nice details of external characterization, and the blocking of any largish group. He shows less command when he has a small, intimate scene at hand, but when he errs, he does so in the direction of emphasizing frenetic movement, which has a special comic advantage over the static set-ups so familiar to Harvard stages...