Word: southernism
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...this season’s Ivy League men’s basketball title race, the most wide-open in many years, a number of clueless rebels will try to end Penn and Princeton’s stranglehold on the league crown. The conference’s southern powers have earned at least a share of first place—as well as the Ivies’ automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament—in every season since 1987-88. Only a single Yale blip—the Bulldogs were co-champs...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” with various expectations. After all, it couldn’t be too hard to peg some key elements that you would expect from any play about a Southern plantation family written by a Southern man. It would be depressing, charged with racial tension, and involve some sort of metaphysical decline...
...exquisite in each of Big Mama’s various personas. She overbearingly clings to her husband, nauseatingly caresses her son Brick, and is alternately sweet and severe to her daughters-in-law. All the time, her nasal voice and fluttering motions create the perfect, crumbling image of the Southern plantation mistress...
...headlines, virtually every week we would file an "Italian Violence Roundup" alongside the coverage of the games. There were also spot stories to file on racist chants and anti-Semitic banners in stadiums. An in-depth report on the ills of the Italian game also included a visit in southern Rome to Lazio fan headquarters, adorned with Fascist-era Celtic crosses and photographs of Benito Mussolini. When I arrived with an AP photographer, a leader of the "Irrudicibile" rooting section refused to talk to me, made the photographer turn over his film, and accused my bearded colleague of "looking like...
...Recruit Irfan Beyaz's father learned of his son detention from journalists. "I can't believe this is happening," he was quoted as saying. Private Ozhan Sabanoglu's family, in the southern town of Hatay, found out from watching TV. "We have been waiting in fear and pain for days, said his father, Bahattin Sabanoglu. "We love our country. I cannot understand it. My plea to the General Staff, to the generals is give us information." A lawyer for the eight men says he will appeal the arrests. They may later stand trial, but in the eyes of a public...