Word: omen
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...Jeff Grant, starting at 177 for Harvard with only slight varsity experience, provided the most encouraging omen for the Crimson's chances this season. Displaying more muscle and confidence than he had last season, Grant manhandled Dave Penny for the first two periods before grinding him down and pinning him at 1:47 of the third...
...dramatic chronicle of the encounter of the aging conquistador Francisco Pizarro and the young Inca emperor Atahuallpa, however, the play is mechanical, preachy, largely unaffecting and sometimes silly. Ancient Mariner style, Shaffer supplies his own albatross in the form of a narrator, always an ill omen that the drama will be becalmed. He harangues the listener on the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church and the evils of war and plunder. His ultimate theme is that God is dead and life lacks meaning. Royal Hunt is a sort of Tiny Alice shorn of obscurantism and sent to Inca land...
Brown gained 151 yards on the ground, which could be a good omen for the Crimson's game against Dartmouth next week. The Indians have been getting headlines by racking up big scores against mediocre teams, but their defense has not been tested by a good team...
...their befuddled captors, the children soon seem as unlucky an omen as a dead albatross. Horridly adaptable, the youngsters regard lust and violence as spectator sports, cruelty as commonplace. Death itself is a game to them...
...surprisingly, the French, who first introduced the metric system after the Revolution, were delighted. Said Paris' Le Monde, almost kindly: "The fact that the British have given themselves exactly ten years to adopt the decimal system is a happy omen. Had they been true to form, one fears they would have given themselves a period more in conformity with their tradition of measurements, such as twelve years, six months and 14½ days...