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Brumbach had put the Crimson in the game to begin with, fumbling a punt snap on the Penn four, after Harvard had fallen behind by a surprising 14-0 score in the first quarter. Harvard cashed in on Brumbach's booted play for a touchdown, and went on to score three more times in the next two quarters, taking a 28-14 lead midway through the third quarter...
Raymond Murcell as Polyphemus displayed a perfect combination of grotesque rage and pathetic impotence. His love aria--with an amusing piccolo obbligato solo--was especially well-ornamented and had a healthy rhythmic bounce supported by the continuo. A Scotch snap rhythm (more formally known as inverted dotting) was used for the aria. Though this is missing from some recordings of Acis, the obbligato solo clearly calls...
With 45 seconds remaining in the game. Harvard was at the Cornell 25- yard line and driving. Foster took the snap, rolled right and, alas, there it was again--the underthrown pass. Cornell's Steve Lahr picked it off. The Crimson's fourth-quarter rally had fallen agonizingly short, and Cornell had won the crucial Ivy battle...
...Arthur Hailey writes holding-pattern prose. He advances one of his homunculi three-and-a-half pages toward ruin, then puts him in a holding pattern and moves some other character a totter or two toward temptation. But just before the dread jaws of fee-fi-fo-fum snap shut, there is another shift of attention, and the reader must tremble in behalf of a third wretch who has been circling perdition for two chapters, waiting for permission to land...
...Huskies started the third period in good field position, but a bad snap from center on a punt left Harvard knocking on the door again. However, once more the offense failed to put points on the board, stopped on a fourth-and-one situation at the Northeastern...