Word: point
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...center of the crack-up is Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom. In the small Pennsylvania suburb where he was born and lives, he had been a schoolboy hero, a basketball player of exciting skill. That was the high point of his life. Now, out of the army and in his mid-20s, he has reached a personal nadir. The old hero of the courts works as a demonstrator of a kitchen gadget. His wife is dull, losing her looks, and spends most of her time before the TV set with an oldfashioned. Not knowing what he wants, but hating what...
...story with a true novelist's power. His too-explicit sexual scenes are often in the worst of taste, but his set pieces describing Rabbit's crackup, his confrontations with wife, family, mistress and imploring minister show some of the surest writing in years. Up to a point Rabbit, Run seems to be saying that this is what much of life in the U.S. is like; certainly Updike's scene and people seem too threateningly typical. Yet the real weakness of the book is Rabbit's own. Not many men, no matter how desperate...
Things might have been different if Dave Gouldin hadn't thought fast on the second Tiger extra point. Holder Hugh Scott couldn't find the handle on the ball, but Gouldin booted it right out of his hands and over the crossbar...
...move the team, put on a brilliant show to lead a Harvard comeback that almost pulled out a tie with the favored Tigers. With less than two minutes remaining and the score 14-6, the Crimson covered 85 yards on two Bartolet passes to move within a two-point conversion...
This decision may have been the turn- point of the game, and, just as if wanted to prove that Yovicsin's was unwise, the Tigers, finding themselves in a indentical situation a minutes later, went for the first made it and continued to their touchdown...