Word: poundingly
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Harvard has just as much depth at defense. Chris Gurry and George McManama are two returning lettermen who played last year as sophomores. Gurry, a lean 5'11", 170-pound defender, is famous for his bodywork. He racked up 40 minutes of penalties last year--second only to fellow sophomore Terry Flaman, who acquired 49 minutes...
...does Pound appear to have accepted the liturgical cadence of Eliot when he spoke in his own poetic voice. The opening of the Game of Chess section (originally called In the Cage) begins...
This passage, which evokes both Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the historic Queen Elizabeth (who were both barge owners), seemed to Pound as "too tum-te-tum at a stretch." Eliot fortunately could not help writing poetic poetry. His verse, as it was written, tum-te-tums today in many a mind, and the Boston lady's chair in that passage is still a "burnished throne...
...Pound wrote WONDERFUL in penciled capitals along the entire first page of A Game of Chess, and Pound was right. Elsewhere, his critical pruning seems to have worked well against the too lush proliferation of Eliot's young genius. Whole passages, in fact, were stricken where Eliot bowed to Pound's radical diagnosis...
Doodles. And so, between Eliot and Pound, what began as a mere esthetic experiment-the mixing of time and place, vulgar anecdote and ancient legend, ethics and pop songs, classical gods and modern nonheroes-became a great work. A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand...