Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself. Besides being a reminder of the international power of American pop music, hearing The Long Run in Blandford helped to take the Eagles out of cultural context. It lifted them from the category of stainless-steel Los Angeles pop, in which they are usually confined on their home turf, and let their music stand free of preconceptions. It sounded good...
Largely because of an offense that crunched Columbia two weeks ago and stunned defending Ivy champion Dartmouth in the season opener, the Tigers (2-1 in the Ivy, and 2-3 overal) rate at least an even bet to bite the Crimson on its own turf...
Though Hollingsworth fumbled the ball away on the next series, the Crimson defense held Dartmouth and forced a punt, a play that became this week's oddity. Larry Margerum fumbled the snap on the kick and booted the ball off the stadium turf, watching his drop-kick roll dead at the Harvard one. But the Hanover celebration ended when the officials ruled the punt illegal and gave Harvard a first and ten at the Dartmouth...
...high-mindedness he had mocked as a student, ten years before, with an acrid parody of Puvis de Chavannes's Sacred Grove, into whose pallid scattering of muses he introduced a line of stray moderns from a Paris street, including his stunted self, back turned, urinating on the turf of Parnassus. Lautrec thought the timeless and the eternal a boring joke, and in At the Moulin Rouge he offered the alternative: let the aesthetes dedicate themselves to Higher Thought, but he would stick with gaslight, friends and the fallen soul...
Harvard, however, regained control of the game quickly. At 11:58 tri-captain Julie Brynteson chipped a perfect curving airball to St. Louis, who slammed it into the right-hand side of the net, leaving Terrier goalie Margie McClure tasting the turf...