Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the 8:00 a.m. train has left South Station, a well-built middle-aged man draws a bottle of scotch from the pouch of his Harvard sweatshirt and swallows the first mouthful...
...hundred years ago this November, 150 Harvard men joined 15 of their toughest classmates on a train ride over these same tracks to New Haven for the first Harvard-Yale game. Since at that time the schools played different brands of football, both team captains had met previously to set compromise rules. Unfortunately, the rule compromises eliminated only a part of the confusion. The Elis, who had previously played a game involving only kicking, were unsure of how to hold and tackle. When Yale succeeded finally in grasping the fundamentals, Fair Harvard accused them of unnecessary roughness. Even the ball...
...TRAIN, To Restore American Independence Now, "stop foreign...
LIKE RICHARD M. NIXON, little Georgie dreams of trains passing in the night. Georgie's train, Broadwaybound, will whirl him breathlessly on to stardom, if only he can catch hold of its handlebars. In his passion to board the train, Georgie plays a politician's game; brash and overeager, he lets his ambitions run roughshod over personal relationships. An act and a half and one wife later, metamorphosed into Broadway actor/composer/producer George M. Cohan, he pleads his success: "I'm not just on that train, I own it," he says...
...Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid's production of George M!, Greg Minahan as Georgie doesn't just own the train either; he is the train. "If you're not moving, you're slowing down," Georgie says at one point. "That's my idea of the thing--perpetual motion." Bringing a phenomenal level of energy to his role, Minahan, who also directed the show, never does slow down. Aided by a lively George M. Cohan score and foot-stomping choreography, he carries George M! exuberantly onward to its musical destination...