Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haven't had a whole lot of confidence," he admitted-but that was before New Orleans. In the first round at Lakewood Country Club, he belted a drive that was measured at 320 yds.; in the second he drove the green of the par-four twelfth hole-360 yds. away. Jack's first round score was a two-under-par 70; he followed that with a 68 and a 69, at week's end had moved into a tie for the lead with Canada's George Knudson...
...setback at Cornell was the twelfth consecutive Ivy League loss for Harvard, but the improved showing of the entire squad gave hope that the end of that losing streak may be in sight...
Sand & Rectal Thermometers. The victories really belonged to Bonnet. And it was all the more remarkable because the twelfth child of an Alpine hotelkeeper was so late in showing an interest in the sport. He grew up determined to become a doctor; he never set foot on skis until World War II, when he divided his time between the air force and the maquisards-mountain-based Resistance fighters. While in uniform, he learned to ski so well that at war's end he was asked to take over training the army's Alpine ski troops. There he stayed...
Dead playwrights can expect to have their work manhandled by succeeding generations, but no thing that ever lived deserves the thrashing Shakespeare is receiving from the Leverett House Drama Society. Their production of Twelfth Night is, alas, a graceless botch...
Setting the play inside an insane asylum, with the actors as a palsied herd of flustered souls, is the first and most grievous wrong. It is a commonplace of Shakespearean criticism to say that some of the characters in Twelfth Night act so cruel that they seem insane, but that is no license to turn the play into a cut-rate Marat-Sade. To interpret the play that way is to say, "Be calm, audience, real people are nice. You have to be bonkers to be vicious." The audience should not be allowed to rest so easy...