Word: blackboarding
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That was the rallying cry chalked up on every blackboard in Dillon Field House yesterday as the varsity set itself for what has always been the payoff week in Harvard football...
...Blackboards & Boredom. For its largest audience (an estimated 11 million around the country), TV tried earnestly to make up the difference by cooking up things to put on the screen. Some of the devices were effective and to the point-e.g., the simple scoreboards and graphs that gave the returns at a glance (but not the detail-packed blackboard charts that looked like visual doubletalk...
...Institute's director, Oppie still intends to find time to teach and learn. His predecessor's Oxford prints are gone from the director's office; in their place is a wall-length blackboard, covered with equations. And three afternoons a week, out in the new wing, Oppie and 15 young friends can be found talking over elementary-particle physics, explaining things to each other...
They also found themselves imitating their master's mannerisms. They scribbled furiously on the nearest blackboard, talked in soft, deep tones, combed agitated fingers through tousled hair, grunted an excited "Ja, Ja" or a nervous "Hunh, Hunh." They learned to careen along with a perpetual, preoccupied stoop; some even took up chain-smoking and blue shirts...
...Tech, Oppie had been at home with the blackboard and the slipstick. At Los Alamos he proved that he could direct experimental physics. And he had the capacity to make prima donnas pull together, and ordinary people work like the devil. He worked like the devil himself-sometimes as much as 20 hours a day. A six-footer, he shrank...