Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desire Under the Shoe. Even a novice needs no more than one visit to the track to learn that there are other ways for jockeys to win. Such great riders as Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17, 1948) and Ted Atkinson, though they may look just as rough as Willie when they are going down the stretch in a scrap for a big purse, sit their mounts with something that could be called style. Even more in contrast are the sensitive, stylish operators of the genus Willie Shoemaker, who win even the close ones without seeming...
...Brooks Atkinson, who edited these essays, suggested that they be limited to a thousand words apiece, but as he explained in the introduction, "Since every word a Harvard man writes is precious and represents a deliberate alliance with God, I have not dared to eliminate much." The collection is sprinkled with big names: Pusey, Conant, S. N. Behrman, Van Wyck Brroks, Dos Passos, Learned Hand, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Senator John F. Kennedy, and John P. Marquand. Also are two having more recent experience of Harvard College: Michael Dean Butler '56, and Jonathan Kozol '58, who contribute two of the longest...
...Critics Circle is highly Pleased at the increased interest in theatrical activity at Harvard, and hopes that it will continue unabated in the future. The theatre may be, as Brooks Atkinson said recently, "the cruelest of the Professions"; but at the student level its worthwhileness as an extracurricular activity is unsurpassed, both in its many inherent benefits to those taking part and in its cultural and educational stimulus to those beholding it. Has not many a sage told us that all the World's a stage...
...play in Manhattan closed last week after only three performances, but it was a smash hit. Students in the religious drama program of Union Theological Seminary closed their six-play season with a production of a play by a German Evangelical pastor that moved Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times to soaring words ("stunning," "remarkable") and packed the seminary auditorium with standees...
Behind Schwartz, at No. 7, is John Eager, who rowed 5 on the J.V.'s last year. Charlie Atkinson retains his position on the varsity at 6, as does Ted McCagg at 5. Two sophomores from last year's starting frehman crew, Jim Leonard and Peter Tulloch, will row at No. 4 and 3 positions. Tom Nuzum, another sophomore, whom Love tried ut at stroke earlier in this year, will row 2, and captain Jack Lapsley will round out the boat at bow. Bob McLaughlin will...