Word: tom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking to the underclassmen for a lot of support," Bartlett says. The newcomers will have to fill the Foot-joys of last year's captain Tom Yellin, Steve McConnell, Peter Zurkow, and John Ellis, all lost to graduation. "Numbers two, three, and four might not be as stable as last year," says Vik, "but we can do sporadically very well...
Despite the miserable conditions, a rusty contingent of Tom Repps skippering with Long and Jim Hammit with crew Dave Poor took second place behind the home team, New York Maritime. Though Tufts, the team's biggest rival, was not at the event, it was an impressive finish nonetheless. Especially considering the mid-Atlantic competition in the regatta had already been on the water three weeks...
...term of en dearment for chorus girls in Harlem in the '20s and '30s. Both sweet and sizzling, this loosely structured show is a song and dance ramble. During the edgy militant '60s, any black who danced was regarded as a toe-tapping Uncle Tom, and any black who sang was regarded as an evangelical sponge. What a treat it is to see blacks singing and dancing as if those skills were not blemishes on intellect or race but blessings of body and voice...
...electric. The novel proves again-if any doubters still remain-that women can write about physical functions just as frankly and, when the genes move them, as raunchily as men. It strikes a blow for the picara by putting a heroine through the same paces that once animated a Tom Jones or a Holden Caulfield. And it suggests that life seen from what was once called the distaff side suspiciously resembles the genitalia-centered existence that male novelists have so long monopolized. The organs are different; the scoring is the same...
...stone figures talked lethargically on the couch, while others on the floor sucked earnestly at joints. Whenever I wandered in here, stripped to a tee shirt and sweating--anomalous among the taxidermic figures of this room--I left hastily. These are the two "ideals of Saturday night," my roommate Tom says: the frenzied dancing of one room offset by the cocktails of the quiet room...