Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of Israel is like Mishmar Ayalon-an armed frontier land where the settlers live in constant dread of a shot, a raid, a sudden grenade. The danger breathes down your neck as you drive to Jerusalem through a road cleft into a gorge, under the eyes and weapons of Jordanians perched on the hills. You feel it on the narrow-gauge railway that winds into the city alongside Jordan territory so close that sunflower seeds spat from the train windows fall onto Arab soil. Where Jordan bulges westward, the Israeli beachhead is barely eight miles wide. It takes less...
...FORCE program is also big (125,000 students in 188 colleges, 1,400 officer-instructors), but operates on a relatively low budget ($13 million). It has been harassed by cutbacks and constant changes in curriculum. The Air Force gives no flight training to undergraduates, instead concentrates on classroom instruction (aerodynamics, weather, Air Force administration), devotes 99 hours to the role of air power and its history. Started in 1947 as a program for ground specialists, the A.F.R.O.T.C. was built up by 1951 to turn out 27,000 officers a year for a 143-wing Air Force. With authorized strength down...
Feeneyism is a much discussed topic. Leonard J. Feeney is a constant reminder of what Harvard as a whole never became and of what religious bias can do to a man and his followers living at war with society. His only influence today is in providing the University community with a warning and with something about which to laugh grimly...
...Give Them the Gun." An impetuous man, with tawny eyes, a constant wine flush on his cheeks and a towering reputation as a ladies' man, De Castries the soldier holds the high trust of his superiors (the late General de LaUre de Tassigny would never question a De Castries decision) and the admiration of his men, who often shout. "Here comes Cri-Cri [a diminutive for Christian]," when he runs up to lead a charge. "Allons " De Castries has been heard to shout back. "What the hell are you waiting for? Do you expect the enemy to send...
Stan's Girl was the more workmanlike of the two, although the less ambitious. With every superfluity chopped from the dialogue and action, the play had a fresh spirit which held the constant attention of the audience. Schwarz' portrayal of a tough, young worker, in the role of Herbie, was straightforward and extremely convincing. He avoided the exaggeration which could easily have spoiled the role...