Word: circulars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happily, crossing the chasm leaves many other all-round boys, if not circular, at least elliptical. There are PBH, HDC, and WHRB. There are the literary magazines and the seminars, the political magazines and the musical organizations. And there is the CRIMSON...
...other day we descended a circular staircase in our House kitchen and spent several hours below ground taking a tour of Central Kitchens. We had an appointment with Mr. Charles Whiteside, the chief engineer, who was more than a little harassed when we met him outside the bakery. Mr. Whiteside told us there had been a breakdown in the dishwater recirculation system, which he would have to attend to if the students of Harvard were to be fed that night. He apologized for not being able to take us on a thorough tour but invited us to accompany...
Outer Mongolia, says Sochurek, is basically two nations. One is the timeless meadowlands of Central Asia where nomads pasture their flocks and herds just as they did centuries ago under the rule of their great hero-king, Genghis Khan. Outer Mongolia has more yurts (circular, felt-covered tents) than houses, and more cattle (21 million) than people (1,000,000). Mongols are born to the saddle, lasso their horses with nooses at the end of long poles, make a strong wine from fermented cow's milk and feast on such dainties as yak butter delicately flavored with yak urine...
...intuitive wisdom that is only now being proved out, Eliot indulges himself in many a long reach. Aphrodite, goddess of love, was able to renew her virginity simply by bathing in the sea. Now "astrophysicists relate that our life-giving sun renews its virginity also, by dint of a circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows it for the word game it is. But like the juggler...
...fact that he got shot. Civil War buffs still debate the merit of his deployment, but there is no question that the Confederate cannonball that smashed Sickles' right leg helped to make U.S. medical history. After the leg was amputated, a Union medic showed Sickles a year-old circular that directed medical officers "diligently to collect, and -o forward to the office of the Surgeon General, all specimens of morbid anatomy, surgical or medical, which may be regarded as valuable...