Word: three-and-a-half
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...senior from Lowell House entered Harvard with a reputation as a baseball pitcher, but in his three-and-a-half years here has become a legend, instead, for his knowledge of oldies but goodies...
...central action is non-existent. Trumbo and Taradash obviously intended Hoxworth to pump some life into the sorry mess, but he remains curiously unaffecting and eerily unaffected. When the tide flows out after 20-some-odd years (how did they ever manage to squeeze it all into three-and-a-half hours?) all we know about this elusive virile fellow is that he has grown rich and a moustache, but never changed his jacket. While working as a male nurse during the measles epidemic, he takes it off, but that doesn't really count...
Lindsay's next three-and-a-half years will see these forces converging. Charisma and promises are the glories of a new mayor. So far, Lindsay's idealism has been both his major source of energy and his biggest curse. His commissioners also have big ideas, but bigger, tradition-bound bureaucracies. Results will be the final measuring rod, and a year or two from now the mayor will need more than that sign in his office that reminds him to SMILE
...Yale eight that still has not reached top form this year. The Elis lost two early-season races, won only one, and failed to reach the finals of the Eastern Sprints, Harvard won the Sprints by a record margin and led Yale in the morning heat by three-and-a-half lengths...
Theoretically, it was a thrill-packed, down-to-the-wire contest, with the Crimson's Tom Bilodeau breaking up a 9-9 tie with a clutch single in the bottom of the ninth. But the few faithful fans who stuck it out for the full three-and-a-half hours were too weary, too jaded, to be thrilled at Harvard's victory. One of them did manage a tight, ironic smile...