Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sections of the track were periodically removed so that dashmen and hurdlers would have a clear lane to their finish line. High jumpers rolled over the bar. Seconds after they started, handicap relays were too confused for the casual fan; runners were spread out over the track. And through it all, pole vaulters kept on jumping, and a proud, tux-togged official rode high in the basket of a finger lift to replace the bar when someone missed...
Happily, long years of practice have made the dedicated track fan proof against the distracting discord on the floor. Somehow he can spot his favorite in the welter of colored sweat suits. Last week Parry O'Brien was not the only record breaker he had to watch...
...particularly taken by the hard, jazzy, garish, kaleidoscopic aspects of city life. The Armory Show of 1913, in which modern European art first burst upon America, introduced Davis to abstractionism, and in 1927 he clamped onto it for good. He nailed an eggbeater, a rubber glove and an electric fan to a table and painted them over and over. "Through this concentration," he explains, "I focused on the logical elements. The result was the elimination of a number of particularized optical truths which I had formerly concerned myself with." Davis' Eggbeater No. 3 is clearly free of optical truths...
...dialect. There is not a Confederate in the cast. Yankee morals triumph, the plantation's only virgin is corrupted, and tradition falls. Northern gag men must sparkle to get away with this; they don't, principally because the comedy has a minimum number of funny lines. Any Jackie Gleason fan can predict virtually every ensuing speech...
Although he anticipates no change for Lamont at present, McNiff would like to see a circulating record collection for the library. (He is an ardent fan of musicals). As for possible college expansion, he notes that the library is now at a comfortable level. "Of course, there were 1,000 more students in the college when Lamont opened," he says, "and I suppose we could take care of more now. However," McNiff warns, "Lamont is used as much today as it was in 1949 when we had the greater number of students...