Word: back
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ladle lady resumed her expostulations, but Henry expostulated right back, and finally she retreated whence she came, muttering balefully under her breath...
...even contest that see-sawed back and forth for 98 minutes, the varsity soccer team and the Williams Ephmen fought to a scoreless tie here yesterday. In the Ephs the Crimson met a determined, well-trained eleven, and the resulting struggle was a battle of equals in every respect...
...Crimson, Lary Ekpebu was outstanding. Back at his old position, wing, for most of the second half, Ekpebu twice stormed the Williams goal single handedly after dribbling through the entire defense...
...half of the issue (it starts from both back and front and reads into the middle like a high school humor magazine) is devoted to the poetry of Mark J. Mirsky, David Landan, and Thomas Weisbuch, all Harvard undergraduates. Mirsky's poems are mostly short, tight sketches, upon banal subjects, revealing a certain sensitivity, but constantly becoming fouled in their own language. There are technical errors in many of these poems, inaccuracies of expression, inconsistencies in metaphor (even louts, when angry, do not grin, etc.) and a rough, amateurish quality in word choice. There is, however, a certain crude gentleness...
...Poems have for the most part neither the virtue of pleasing sound nor coherent sense. One piece, called Heat Lightning begins with the truly incredible line, "The city has a thousand elbows" and goes on to picture men pacing "like armor" with each one carrying a building on his back. The carelessness in this poem is evident to a greater or lesser degree in all of the others. They read as though the poet had chosen his theme, the depiction of a certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly, realizing each time that...