Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Yale's third place standing is somewhat surprising, but when one considers that the Elis have played Brown twice, and Cornell and Harvard once each, it's a bit easier to understand...
There was no point in finishing the game and they didn't. Outmanned in all aspects of the game. A.I.C. became flustered and a bit pushy, especially in front of the net. With less than a minute left. Peter Watson paired off with a burly defenseman and wrestled...
...Muriel Humphrey. The comic, who supposedly had a stalled car and no overcoat, took pratfalls in snow drifts while the former Vice President, who was all bundled up, made interminable chatter. Other opening-night visitors were Daffy Duck (in animation) and the unthinkable Debbie Reynolds. The one amusing bit in the whole 30 minutes was the closing segment in which Pat pleaded with the "Nielsen families" to keep tuning in. Tearfully, he suggested that if low ratings caused cancellation of the show, "over 75 people will be out of work . . . The money received from tonight's show," he said...
...Nirvana. The country inn, where much of the action takes place, is the English dramatic equivalent of the French bedroom. It offers an almost novelistic diversity of characters and encounters. Prelates and highwaymen, maids and matrons meet and mingle-strangers in the night who may, with a little bit of luck, become intimates for the night. Mine host, Boniface, has given his name to the language and, with a certain conjugal felicity that has persisted over the centuries, combines the roles of innkeeper and robber...
...International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended in a shed and, finally, a hanged man whose death is as meaningless...