Word: uprightness
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...most significant, the creature had walked upright. Its foramen magnum, the hole through which the spinal cord enters the skull, was not in the rear of the skull as it is in an ape or any other animal that walks on all fours; as with Neanderthal. Peking and Java men, it was far enough forward in the skull to indicate that the spinal column was usually in a vertical position and that the young primate had been bipedal...
...forgotten. No jail cell could hold him, no locks or chains could confine him. Houdini released himself thousands of times from every known physical restraint, often purposely putting his life in danger to dramatize the escapes. He was certainly no slouch: why escapes from a strait jacket standing upright when you can do it hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands watching? Why get out of complicated shackles and leg irons on terra firma, when you can make it more difficult by first jumping off a bridge into a river below...
...opening minutes of the final, suspenseful, quarter-hour period Tufts took control, sending a cross rolling tantalizingly across the front of the Crimson goalmouth and then booming a shot that deflected into the right upright...
...REMAINING three pieces do not use such obvious theatrical devices. In "Cervidae," choreographed by Luise Wykell, Jim and Lorry crawl, never standing upright, at times like insects with spindly legs extending skyward, at times like bears rubbing noses. "Peer," choreographed by Patrice Regnier, deals with emotions that one friend called "primitive," another "childlike." Again, the animal tinges the human character. And finally, "Duet," from Anna Sokolow's "Lyric Suite," omitting the shading of animal character, presents the passions of young lovers...
David Brody '52, an author and labor historian, says many of his leftist friends felt free to express themselves because they viewed Harvard as "some type of bastion" even though there was evidence then (and even more emerged later) that Harvard was not as upright about McCarthyism as its students often believed...