Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points last year and was one of the squad's leading rebounders. Sophomores Al Bornheimer (5 ft. 11 in.) and Leo Scully (6 ft.)--the leading scorer on last year's freshman team--will start at the guard positions. Vern Strand (6 ft. 4 in.) will play at the pivot post on coach Floyd Wilson's revamped offense...
...Saturday's game, for instance, the Crimson may have three sophomores in the starting line-up: guards Leo Scully and Al Bornheimer, and pivot man Merie McClung. Augustine, who has been kept off the floor by a broken foot, may be able to play at full speed by the end of the month, but in the interim the team has missed both his teaching skills and the opportunity to develop coordination with him in there...
...sense of the timeless universe of unchanging human rather than from the dangerously ephemeral world of contemporary problems. Just as Faulkner locates the center of a writer's philosophical contribution in the writer's official statements of belief, he also recognizes the individual rather than society as the pivot of moral action. Harvard, product and producer of so many individuals of moral courage could have hardly desired a more honorable or a safer keeper of its place in the imaginative literature of America that The Sound and the Fury. In which Faulkner would have asserted to be a world...
...Ph.D. or its equivalent in achievement, rocketed the College onto the front pages of newspapers across the country. In the suburbs and the cities, from Connecticut to California, nearly everyone seemed to be speculating on woman's role in society. And, more often than not, Radcliffe was the pivot and symbol of the ensuing argument...
Robert Kogan, Assistant Conductor and principal cellist of the orchestra, began the evening's concert with the third (1806) "Leonore" Overture. Mr. Kogan has the broad back, long forelocks, and stance proper to a conductor; he knows how to pivot gracefully from the heels. Unfortunately, faced with a cold orchestra, he did not succeed in making the violins play clearly and together; the transition passages with string accompaniment lacked co-ordination. Although at times he devoted a nice attention to the subtleties of dynamics, he failed to exploit any of the possible tensions of silence: in the quiet dialogue among...