Word: second
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON was penalized 15 yards at the outset, for suspicion of possession of narcotics. Aided by a two-yard gain and three consecutive 15-yard penalties, the fighting Niemans drove 47 yards. The first penalty against the CRIMSON was for impudence: the second came when officials called the entire CRIMSON line for unnecessary effeteness; on the third play, the CRIMSON linebacker was called for snobbery...
...second was a kind of prosthetic phallus which belonged to Thirsites. When fastened to his loincloth it was visible only when he turned upstage, and its curves were those of a snake. Released, and it was left hanging a good deal of the time, it hung to his knees. Insofar as it did not allow him the modesty allowed to those around him, it gave him a reason for his cynicism. Insofar as, when it was it was present, the full dramatic force of the play swung on its axis, it gave Thirsites immediately the authority which on the page...
There is a clarity of both the parts and the whole in The Winter's Tale which was almost perfectly realized in this production. I have mentioned the most clearly molded transition of the play: this was carried off with brilliance: the first and second major parts, roughly defined as the tragic and the comic, blended into a whole which was exquisitely forceful...
...think that all these distant figures were great, that we too may become like them. What seems so impossible to us now is that anything could have happened to damage them. Their names, engraved in faint gold lettering on wooden plaques, crowd the walls of the Sanctum on the second floor of our House at 21 South Street. Pegasus, the winged horse, has been carved into a wooden throne chair, featured above The Advocate's motto: Dulce est Periculum. There is also another: Veritas nihil veretur, which means (I read a translation of it the introduction to this anthology) "Truth...
...past week Brown has won two crucial matches. Against Bridgeport, the Bruins edged the Purple Knights 2-4 to qualify for today's match. Last Saturday Brown, knowing that a loss would drop it to fourth place in the Ivy League, easily defeated Columbia 3-1 to finish second behind the Crimson in the Ivy standings...