Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Games to play in parentheses...
...game (U.S.C. 14, Cal 7), the president and chancellor of the University of California leveled serious charges against U.S.C.'s star lineman. While Cal's Halfback Steve Bates lay spilled on his back, out of bounds, after an 11-yd. run, McKeever had piled on him. The play was over, yet "McKeever not only continued his forward momentum but changed course towards Bates. He dived at Steve Bates with his elbow far extended, which hit Bates in the side of the face...
...campus snack bar, Mike the Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said that McKeever had performed "no misconduct," had played a "clean but aggressive game." After all, the officials on the spot had not penalized U.S.C. on the questioned play...
...allow the medium to live up to its great promise. In defense, TV's top men could and did say that they have enormous problems, chief among them the vast and amorphous audience. Where a newspaper or magazine can address itself to one kind of audience, television must play...
...away prairie mothers, but of a most gratifying sophistication. Miss Stein gave them back their nursery rhymes and they had fine babbling times together." As for for own writing, apart from a trio of impressive short stories, Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and the moving play-opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Gertrude Stein was not so much the hoaxer as the hoaxed. She tried to purify words by divorcing them from meanings and using them as pigments or notes. At best, the result was a kind of singing noncommercial...