Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whenever the Class of '66 feel sorry for themselves, they should count the graves at Arlington, or the crosses on Iwo Jima, or the Chosin headstones, and then thank God that they have the privilege of an education and free choice of career. And instead of fearing the unknown, they should look forward to military service. Most ex-servicemen will tell you that some of their best times and most lasting friendships were in the armed forces...
...happiest day of my life." Master Chalmers begins a charmingly scholastic discussion about the meaning of "substantial" by writing that it "obviously must remain a relative term until the Dean has at least some idea of how many letters he will receive." Dean Monro replies that he will neither count letters nor define the word, and hints that Harvard may want to eliminate all student choice in the assignment process, anyway...
Hateful Eyebrows. The son of Count Zappi-Manzoni, Pablo arrived self-taught from Arden's Rome salon two years ago with a bagful of tricks (beige foundation, pink and white eyeshadow). He took the fashion world by storm with a series of eye fantasies for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in which he used peacock feathers, sequins, lace, flower petals, even diamonds, all painstakingly pasted onto eyelids in fanciful designs. Some eyes took as long as five hours to do, but they made the magazine covers, earned Pablo special beauty awards and the run of Elizabeth Arden...
...face, firing baseballs at the Reds as if he didn't have a care in the world. In the fourth inning, with the bases loaded, he strikes out Cincinnati's Johnny Edwards on five pitches. In the eighth, with Cincinnati runners on first and third, and a count of three balls and two strikes on Batter Art Shamsky, he cuts loose a back-breaking curve. Strike three! Meanwhile, he has scored one Giant run himself, driven in two others with a 385-ft. double. The Giants win, 5-3, and Juan Marichal (pronounced Mah-ree-chal) marches...
...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith gets a degree there will be a riot, and that would bother the alumni, and the whole graduation show is designed to entertain the alumni anyway, so you can count...