Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waterlily stalks and water bugs. There are certain very powerful moments, moments when one seems to move closer to the picture than he is at other times. Perhaps the finest scene in Pather Panchali shows the sickness of the daughter during a storm. Windows fly open and the rain blows in; the mother labors at fastening them again. Finally she turns back to the dying child, who raises her arms to her, and the two embrace. It is a moment of incredible power...
...Government Grant though I need a study project. Something recondite," he calculated. "The influence of Provence on French symbolist poetry," he decided. "Il pleure dans mon coeur com-me il pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors, M. Plombier etait une ame sympathique...
Most discouraging for the Crimson, however, was that the rain, by putting a damper on Gundy's throwing arm, should have insured the predicted Crimson victory. The varsity was well aware of its own strong running attack and thought that the best chance for a Dartmouth win lay in Gundy's aerials...
...minutes remaining in the half, Charlie Ravenel started what Crimson supporters hoped would be a march to put the favorites into the lead, but with a succession of time consuming plays, the half ended with the Crimson on the Dartmouth 27. This, perhaps, was the one time when the rain should have been neglected and an air attack employed...
With a dubious assist from Saturday's torrential rain, which caused numerous fumbles and missed tackles, the Yardling eleven tallied three touchdowns in a second-half rally to defeat Dartmouth at Hanover...