Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Both these ingredients have also proven to be John's stumbling blocks. In high school, John was a quarterback, and he got used to running the team. "Once you've played quarterback, you just don't want to play any other position. So when I started to play football here. I naturally wanted to play that position. Quarterbacks my size in college are rare occurrences." John said...
...creative man of letters like Ezra Pound, to whom poetry was a passion in which the soul was engaged in mortal questions of great consequence. Sir Edmund Gosse, for instance, a pompous Edwardian booktaster of great influence and reputation, once referred to Pound as "that preposterous American filibuster and Provençal charlatan." Gosse's dislikes were cordially returned. The young Evelyn Waugh saw Gosse as an "ill-natured habitue of the great world." "I longed," he added, "for a demented lady's maid to make...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU has been proven over and over again, but this time the Kaufman and Hart comedy about a zany family will delight visitors to the Pennsylvania State Festival Theater, University Park...
Captain John Cramer, cornerback Rick Frisbie and linebacker Gary Farnetti are the only starters returning on defense, but Yovicsin has four other proven lettermen--Seniors Rick Berne Ed Sadler, Dale Neal, and Neil Hurley--that he can use with the utmost confidence. Berne and Sadler, who between them saw 221 minutes of action as reserves last season, can ably handle the two defensive tackle spots, getting back-up strength from junior larry Kram, a JV performer last year...
...only recently become available in any consistent form at Cambridge, and even at that, the Crimson still cannot offer a sold all-round performer at that position. Champi has the best throwing arm of any quarterback in Harvard history, but despite his Yale game performance, he has not yet proven his ability to provide stable technical leadership. Roda is an unknown quantity, although in two freshman games at Villanova he threw seven touchdown passes. Smith has most of the ingredients but has not yet used them together, and Crace faces a problem in a system that seldom starts sophomores...