Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unscored upon except for an initial loss and the playoff game, both against Dunster, Eliot took second place, aided by the strong defensive play of tackles Bob Schreiber and captain Joel Linky...
Dawkins soon found that U.S. football and rugby are as different as chalk and cheese. Rugger players wear no padding, kick on the run, cannot block downfield or throw a forward pass. When a back is tackled, he must release the ball so it can be put back in play by the nearest man. Playing for Brasenose College before a handful of fans scattered through bare wooden stands, Dawkins at first pulled a tyro's gaffes. He kept up a steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement...
Last week Dawkins was promoted to Oxford's first team to play against Blackheath, one of Britain's top teams. Treating Blackheath as though it were Navy, Dawkins crashed home on two tries in Oxford's 36-0 victory. Hoisting a friendly pint of stout with his opponents after the game ("Something we unfortunately don't have in American football"), Dawkins had no illusions that he had yet nailed down a berth on the Oxford team that will play Cambridge. Said he modestly: "I am just getting past the stage where I'm getting used...
...does all this survive? Most British schools have a new generation every six years; play-yard lingo ought to be highly perishable. Yet the Opies found little girls skipping to "Little fatty doctor, how's your wife?/ Very well, thank you, she's all right," a chant that goes back at least 130 years. Measured in school time, it has had more than 20 generations of wear. Children find it as fresh as ever...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Last September's Venice concert on film, Lenny will play, conduct and analyze Mozart's Piano Concerto in G Major...