Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grip of artistic demons was formidable for transformation into less than 90 minutes of television drama. Before Playwright S. Lee (People Kill People Sometimes) Pogostin was called in, along with Director Bob Mulligan, two other scriptwriters had fumbled the job. After 48 hours packed with pencil work, pep pills and black coffee, Pogostin and Mulligan had built a play that pleased both Olivier and Producer David Susskind. In the process, they lost some of the novel's dark energy; they never adequately explained how a respectable British stockbroker named Charles Strickland (modeled on famed Painter Paul Gauguin) could abandon...
...started when 150 Princetonians standing in front of Cronin's decided to stage a pep rally in the Yard...
...does one of the season's most successful college football coaches refuse to give his team an oldfashioned, rip-roaring pep talk before the game? See SPORT, The Boys from Syracuse...
...gives the students a chance to display their dinks, buttons, or skimmers. The festivities started Thursday with the traditional Cane Walk, in which the juniors parade around the campus wth bought ($1.30) or borrowed canes that symbolize the advancement from a wise fool to an to an upperclassman. A pep rally followed that night. On Friday night the Junir Prom took place, replete with Prom Queen and all the trappings. The fraternities made posters for the Navy football game, and a group of blazered, skimmered Penn humorists trotted out a she-goat with a sign saying, "Betty-Mistress of Bill...
Midway through the football season of 1919 a group of musicians decided that the music previously provided at the games by the University Banjo and Mandolin Clubs needed some pep. The founder of the first Harvard Band was Frederick L. Reynolds '20, who will be marching this afternoon. With Reynolds directing, the Band shared playing time with the Banjo and Manolin Clubs in its first appearance, October 2, 1919. That season the group occupied Section 35 in the Stadium, the same position it has had ever since...