Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...victory then was due in large part flawless spinnaker work of Horn, John Kimbell, and George who will be at the lines today and . Although second or third boat windward mark, the varsity swept the fleet on the downwind leg six and then hung on to its lead for victory...
...thirds of Princeton's halfback line have earned distinction in intercollegiate squash, but both deserve accolades for their work in soccer alone, Steve Vehslage, the nation's number one college squash player, was also the Ivy League's number one right halfback last year, and Jim Zug, another of the top ten squash men, is nearly as good...
Johnson spent two years studying architecture at the Columbia graduate school before deciding that his real talents lay elsewhere. "When I looked at the work of my classmates," he said, "my ideas seemed very mediocre to me. It appeared very unlikely that the four great architects of the century would come from the same class in the same small school of architecture, so I decided I might do better for myself in another field...
...himself an "accidental scholar." His approach is that of the novelist vividness of description, ease and grace of style, and a conviction that even in biography a strong central story line must be kept well in sight. It is this last, the emphasis on an organized view of the work as a whole, that has led to Johnson's reputation as a scholar...
Johnson insists he has no quarrel with the "new critics" who assert that a literary work should require no knowledge to be understood outside of that presented in the book itself. He maintains, however, that a knowledge of the author's life can very often throw further illumination on his works. It would be a critical folly, he says, to throw this knowledge away...