Word: polyphemus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yale beats us at the game of corralling giants. Is there no game for ordinary mortals to play? Must they forever sit and warm the bleachers? Must they forever simply sing and cheer? Did God really put all the brain, nerve, heart, skill, adroitness, quickness worth cultivating into Polyphemus? Has not this idolatry of burly Sullivans, and Wooly Goliaths game far enough? Why does this good old game of football languish in America? Why does good old Rugby languish? Why do not the men who pine upon the bleachers take this up and make it popular? It is a better...
...patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy of the old type with all the rudeness and boisterousness of earlier times. Such a play is the Cyclops, the subject being the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus...