Word: quivers
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Brook's voice seemed to quiver just a bit as he told of the Tigers' 71-39 clobbering of midwest toughie Ohio State. Then he started to rattle off an impressive list of Princeton strengths...
...what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...
Nothing. Not a quiver. Oh sure, maybe a Framingham or a Worcester during the course of Orientation Week. But that's it. Spontaneity is the key, and the more cooked-up the occasion, the lower the reading. Commencement, for example, hasn't crossed Route 128 since the Second World...
...resulting 14 Stations, put on view last week in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Each measures 68 in. by 72 in., contains ever so slight variations of vertical bands, each setting up harmonic tensions with the rest. Viewed under intense illumination, Newman's striped Stations seem to quiver with the vibrancy of lines of diffracted light seen through an electric arc spectroscope...
There is much more to come. Warns Dozier: "If Batman does well, I have the Green Hornet and Wonder Woman in my quiver." Small wonder that kids are wondering what's to become of the older generation...