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...eight of its goals by that point, and they were all beauties. The first came at 4:01 of the first period when Devaney fed Macks charging down the left wing for an unstoppable shot. Two minutes later, with the Crimson a man down. Devaney perfectly deflected Bob Rockwood's shot from the point...
Senior Gerry Boyle and junior Bob Rockwood head an experienced but no longer spectacular defense corps. Coach Jim Fullerton plans to give sophomore Mark Burns his first varsity start in the goal, but senior letterman Dick Rastani will be in reserve...
...David Rockwood's "Simon of Rhodesia" is rambling, exuberant, and fun. If there's more to it than meets the eye, I don't think we should look for it: if mention of a "blue guitar" and a Prufrock spoof (substituting "Henry Miller-O" for "Michelangelo") are supposed to plunge us into thoughts of Stevens and Eliot, the poem does not justify its allusions. But taken lightly it's pleasant, and occasionally striking, as when a guitarist "plucked a flatted fifth as one might pluck the eyeball of a kitten...
...monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...
Student retaliation was instantaneous. As Harvard historian Samuel E. Morrison puts it, "The 'black flag of rebellion' was hung from the roof of Holworthy... The juniors, led by Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, voted to wear crape on their arms... and hanged Quincy's effigy to the Rebellion Tree...