Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...started with all the sullen signs of a typical Harvard-Cornell matchup: gray skies, a slippery field, and a bobbled Crimson kickoff return which pinned the gridders deep in their own territory...
...capture hearts far beyond city limits. Indeed, les Expos have given an entire nation la fièvre de baseball. Led by Gérant (Manager) Dick Williams, and sparked by the hot bat of Receveur (Catcher) Gary Carter, the Expos have overcome a blizzard of injuries, able to field their starting lineup only a couple of dozen times during the entire season...
When London's West Ham United lost 3-1 to Madrid's Castilla last month, the English soccer team's unruly fans urinated and spat on Spanish supporters, pelted the field with beer cans and fought with local police. To show that it would no longer put up with such antics, which are fast becoming a fixture of soccer matches, the European Football Union levied the penultimate penalty: West Ham would have to play its home game to an empty house. Last week the two teams played an evening match before a genteel throng...
...Greeks placed man in a precarious magnetic field between what is aspiring, rational, noble and demigodlike in his nature and raw, tameless instinctual drives that would shame the beasts. That is the thematic core of The Bacchae. But the dramatic spring, common to ancient tragedy, is a test of implacable wills. A man pits himself against a god, a no-win situation. Man's hubris is crushingly rebuked by the divine imponderable, necessity. The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom...
...Finally, nobody ever really wants a scandal cleared up. Uncleared-up, a scandal is like radio: it allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind the desk-legs sprawled wildly among the Eberhard Fabers; Muzak stuck on Boléro. When the candid spoilsport steps forward to tell it like it actually was, the imagination's freedom is curtailed. The audience grows vengeful. Carnage ensues...