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...taking 17 of 27 matches. But at one point the Harvards found themselves down in hours, 8-7, and their own fencers looking like men trying to brash their teeth in (??) Cetrulo, he of the mighty sabre off the bench to poke and (??) a poor Trinity (??) touches to one, whereupon Keller, resembling a surgeon who didn't very much like his patient, cut up a victim five to zip. Thus inspired. Harvard's lesser lights finally quit puffing like fat men chasing a bus and got a little more art in their lunges...
...Welssman was the only Harvard with a blade to winthree bouts, he being a specialist of the foil, Mr. Welssman had a tendency to turn his back on opponents now and again, checking his progress against the scoring machine, whereupon he was fetched several stout clonis from the rear. This may not have been sporting of Trinity's lads, but it was legal, and the citizen Welssman would do well in tougher company to guard his backside with more enthusiasm...
...disgrace for a handful of radicals to disrupt the opportunities of others to get an education in our colleges today," said South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Whereupon his student audience at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University proceeded to disrupt the Senator's speech by pelting him with marshmallows. "Don't be frightened, Senator!" shouted one heckler. "They're not bombs...
...sort of upset me, since I only average (at most) four hours of sleep a night precisely because my professors do give me so much work. He also told me he didn't understand why we were so upset- after all the university planted new trees where it could- whereupon I asked if we were supposed to be grateful because he planted a sapling pinoak (ugly and little even when it grows up in 40 years) for every 150-year-old cypresshe chopped down. Things continued in this vein for a while, with Erwin making disparaging remarks about "the long...
...funniest scene of the evening is a birthday party for the father, with the ceiling festooned with frankfurters, and a cake shaped like a chopping block. The father vows that he will not touch the cake. Grudgingly, he accepts a piece, bites skeptically into it, whereupon his face unclouds with delight as he discovers that the cake is made of meat. Moments like that are rare in a season, let alone a play, and they make Who's Happy Now? a minor treasure...