Word: chins
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...physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete the 50-yd. dash in a certain number of seconds, he was failing not only himself but the whole nation...
...Army's image of the proto-officer: strong, blunt, earnest, demanding. Even with four years to shape cadets, West Point has mixed success installing their program of warrior ethic in teenagers from so many walks of life. So when they see Zielinski adopt it all so naturally--chin out, eyes front, shoulders squared--they see total victory...
...team was given the same skull data and measurements but was not told where they came from. This Tut has a markedly weaker chin and sharper nose...
Likewise, Jess R. Burkle’s ’06 video design (though it occasionally upstages dancers) and Casey M. Lurtz’s ’07 incredible costumes do wonders for the ambience. Finally, kudos to Simon E. Chin ’05, the production’s dramaturg, for condensing Aesychlus’ trilogy and other works of the cycle into a whole that, though fast-paced and at times elliptical, functions dramatically within time constraints...
...book is about Lim Seng Chin, a.k.a. Johnny Lim, a poor boy of Hakka roots who rises to become a communist agent, then a Japanese collaborator and eventually the wealthiest man in the tin-laden Kinta Valley during and after World War II. The "factory" is a nondescript shophouse Johnny buys in 1942 to serve as home and headquarters for his many business schemes. "Our house was not the kind of place just anyone could visit," writes Johnny's only son Jasper, the first of the book's three narrators. "To be invited, you had to be like my father...