Word: robins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture of candor and sympathy...
...playing a double round-robin schedule this year." he said, "so that each House will compete in 14 games instead of the customary seven...
...fiction may be in the doldrums, but good novels continue to come out of postwar Italy. The latest, and one of the best, is The Brigand, a tragic story of an army veteran who tries to play Robin...
...Along with his more prolific brother, Harry B. Smith, who died in 1936, still remembered for his lyrics (They Wouldn't Believe Me; The Sheik of Araby) and librettos (Robin Hood; The Serenade...
...former course was out because the H-Y-P boys like to avoid any possibility of falling into a formal Ivy League. These colleges, particularly Harvard and Yale, don't want to be forced into a formal round-robin circuit in which they'd have to play everyone. These two, for example, don't happen to like Penn's obvious attempts to field a Big Time team, and prefer not to play the Quakers at all. Furthermore, if all the league were included in this statement it would represent the most blatant act of athletic hypocrisy since Villanova was heaved...