Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York the pavement moans under you. A crazed auteur manipulates the crowds as they trot out of the Circle in the Square and the Uris simultaneously, steering them to another train of limos and a field of rusty Chryslers. The violinist's eyes reflect the melancholy dreams of a man who has spent this evening sidewalk-hopping. His bow claws at his violin while he glances woefully at the case at his feet, a felt-covered basin for six quarters, nine dimes and a tribe of pennies. "C'mon folks, if you give a little more, I won't play...
ACADEMIA SPREADS its clutches far and wide. The academic industry gets bigger and bigger, and people lose their jobs if they don't publish. Every field becomes fair prey for new books. But the academic jargon doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood...
NOTE: Be extremely careful to remember that Harvard's women's ice hockey is a second-year Varsity sport with a 13-game schedule. Any attempt to pad your answer by discussing men's ice hockey or field hockey will result in a hopelessly poor score...
Goaltender: Freshman Katie Williams, the only netminder on the Harvard roster, never played hockey on skates until three weeks ago. Williams, who doubles as the varsity field hockey goalie, has performed admirably on the ice, showing steady improvement with every game...
...game began, Kleinfelder said she had instructed the team to shoot more from the floor, and shoot they did--from the top of the key, from the corners, from anywhere outside of 20 feet. The longdistance offense yielded fewer turnovers but also led to a 35-per-cent field goal conversion rate, not a winning statistic...