Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...variation one (upper left) the quarterback hands the ball off directly to the right half, and then fakes to the fullback (the black line indicates the path of the ball). On variation two, he fakes to the right half and actually gives to the fullback circling left...
...Sparkle. Burdick had expected that debates at the Oxford Union would be brilliant occasions in which "wildly precocious youths, their eyes firmly fixed on the main chance in Parliament, debate with cruelly deflating epigrams and puncture windy arguments with sly thrusts." The union would be a "symbol of English upper-class intellectual ability; disenchanted, shrewd, sophisticated, always witty." Actually, he decided, the union was full of stuttering youths, "red-faced with effort ... It is not witty. It does not sparkle...
...more than politics. A few are sincerely concerned. A young editor of the Catholic weekly in Vienna told me, "I am glad I had the Nazi experience, for I feel that only the people who knew it can understand its evil and tell others." But the tendency of the upper class youth is to shake their heads and ask, "What can I do? I'am not a socialist nor a Catholic, and they are in power...
...Freshman Debate Council will hold its first meeting of the year at 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Union Upper Common Room. The lead-off topic is "Resolved: That Harvard should award between 6 and 12 full scholarships to outstanding football players, requiring only that they maintain the minimum scholastic standing...
...some unexpected authenticity because he is capable of crossing black & white traits in a role without showing his hand. The standard rackets-film types include Thomas Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish happiness of a man who has done his first honest day's work...