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Kessler, it might be noted, added to the wrestling match impression by duplicating the ineffectualness of the officials who scamper around the Arena Annex ring on Thursday nights. The TV screen showed Terrell pounding the champ below the belt, and there was Kessler on the blind side, running a second too late to a vantage point where he could see the foul...

Author: By Bob Marshall, | Title: The Sports Dope | 2/8/1967 | See Source »

...middle road is possible only because some critics have taken positions which are not so moderate, not so balanced and blandly phrased. Those who have pushed out the spectrum on the left have claimed new territory for the middle, safe ground to which these "concerned" and "doubting" students may scamper. That's the way the system works, of course: push hard on the left, and make way for the moderates. Human nature abhors a political vacuum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Middle | 1/30/1967 | See Source »

Yale, too, was proud as punch (Kingman Brewster felt it a "great privilege") that Vassar might be willing to scoop her classrooms and labs into her purse and scamper over the Berkshires to the sea. And it is a sacrifice on the part of Vassar. A football weekend in New Haven is all very well, but to live there. Smokestacks. Grimy water. Yale men. Everywhere. Hundreds of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, Sir | 12/20/1966 | See Source »

...predicted top dogs in the League, Dartmouth and Princeton, didn't have as easy time as expected last week. Dartmouth's offense, after two first-quarter touchdowns on a 48-yard punt return by Sam Hawken and a 64-yard scamper by Gene Ryzewicz, sputtered for the rest of the game in a 17-7 victory over Massachusetts...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: All Ivy Teams But Columbia Romp; Cornell, Yale Face Stiff Opposition | 9/27/1966 | See Source »

Newley's cry, clown, cry songs provide errant moments of appeal, most notably a tuneful lament called Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me). A floppy band of little girls clad like the urchins in Oliver! scamper about the ramplike setting to create illusions of dance numbers. One grownup girl (Joyce Jillson) lusciously blessed with beauty distracts the playgoer briefly from the show's glacial pace and Sir's ultimate comedownance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Poppycocky | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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