Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rourke, who was an All-American halfback under Coach Frank Leahy at Boston College in 1940, will bring more than the Old College Try onto Soldiers Field this afternoon. He has a starting lineup that includes eight returning lettermen; he has a line averaging 196 pounds, or one pound more than the Crimson forward wall; he has exceptional depth at the ends and quarterback slots; and he has a strong passing attack that last week scored three touchdowns against American International College...
...Massachusetts running attack will be led by halfbacks Roger Barous and Hal Bowers and fullback John Porter, who in addition to their rushing abilities are all capable pass receivers. Last week Barous averaged 5.6 yards a try on the ground and Bowers picked up 4.5, while Porter, a 209-pound senior, carried the ball 18 times for an average of 4.0 yards...
...CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS (224 pp.)-Translated by Ezra Pound-Harvard University...
...their own verse. Around 484 B.C., Confucius, an inveterate lute player, edited the musical scores for the poems, and told his son: "A man who hasn't worked on the [Odes] is like one who stands with his face to a wall." In this volume. Poet Ezra Pound makes a free and brilliant translation, even to the use of jazz idioms and hillbilly dialect...
...poems are by turns idyllic, ironic and bitter. "Planners" Raw Deal and Decade of T'ang, which tell of a people's agelong suffering under tyranny, are particularly gripping against the background of present-day China. Although Pound, now 68, was charged with wartime sedition in 1945 and confined to Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital as "mentally incompetent.'' he proves once again that he is one of the finest U.S. poets alive...