Word: romps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's 19-6 romp yesterday is any indication, the Wheaton softball team has very few lexicographers on its roster--and even fever clutch hitters...
...even recruited Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) to devise appropriate gestures for the actors, and Anthony Burgess (Language Made Plain) to create primitive dialects, all heavy on the grunts and gutturals. But jokes will come, especially since Quest for Fire emerges less than a year after Caveman, a goofy romp through prehistory that managed to supply the punch lines to many of Quest's earnest questions. Annaud (who won a 1978 Oscar for Black and White in Color) and Screenwriter Gérard Brach have also overtaxed the audience's credulity by dropping virtually every advance of paleolithic...
...after graduation, he mingled with the radical Bohemians of Greenwich Village. Reed's senior year saw his last-ditch efforts to gain acceptance by that part of Harvard that had always found him endearing in a distinctly unappealing fashion. The sidelines at Soldiers Field gave him an opportunity to romp around, and act out the clown many thought him. But, more important, was the Hasty Pudding Club, generally open only to those whose upbringing beckoned their selection. Only Reed's talent merited him consideration. The Hasty Pudding Club needed a lyricist for its annual theatrical production and the quality-minded...
Despite these worries, coach Frank McLaughlin sounded confident about upcoming Ivy confrontations after last night's romp. Would his team falter against live competition? "No, we're just about where we want to be at this point," McLaughlin said. "We haven't played great, but we'll be concentrating a lot harder when Columbia and Cornell come...
Harvard assistant coach John Babington attributed the difference between last year's meet and Saturday's walkover to his team's great improvement. "They did it just on the strength of their ability," Babington said of Harvard's romp...