Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...François Beaulieu and Béatrice Agenin project modern, realistic feeling at the expense of classical eloquence. During his tirades against mankind, Beaulieu runs through the Alexandrines and casts caesuras to the winds. But he builds sympathy by the low-key, unstylized way he plays the love scenes. Agenin, too, is better at intimacy than poetic elegance. She is a wonder, though, at dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back and says lovingly to poor, scoldy Alceste...
...seen the way Harvard played against Army, Penn, or eventual champion Navy (who the Crimson destroyed, 8-2 and 3-1 on April 8) you would never have guessed that the year, or the era of Stenhouse, Bingham, and Brown, would end so swiftly, and so unrewarded...
Brown then twirled his best ball game in over a month. He retired the next thirteen men without a hit, and succumbed for only one more run the rest of the way when the top of the Cornell order parlayed two singles and a Bengochea sacrifice fly into the game's final tally...
Saturday--For those of us who laugh at John Wayne movies, West Point remains the living realization that not everybody feels the same way we do about The Duke or life. They have signs around the coldly beautiful campus that say "Jog--It's good for you and your country." And in the top of the sixth inning in the second game of the Harvard-Army doubleheader, the timeless game of baseball was held fast so everyone could salute the flag and listen to "Taps...
...squad was loose. "The dogs" were indeed still able to laugh at themselves and others: The afternoon proved one long Crimson punchline. The efficiency with which the batsmen mustered the Cadets, welcomed amidst its tardiness, was a stylish and pride-filled way to end the season...