Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious that Sports Illustrated went into Hopkins with its opinion already formed, and tried to fit what it found to its theories. When the article says, "The morale of the Johns Hopkins football squad, understandably, is lackadaisical, even if their playing doesn't show it," distortion is just around the corner. Hopkins' coach, Wilson Fewater, although he has never had a losing season, "is, as might be expected, a case study in almost total frustration," the article assumes, with blithe disregard for rationality...
...Many a Progeny-Many an Agony," read posters on Bombay buses last week. Teeming India is officially committed, more than any other nation in the world, to birth control. At 1,800 "family planning centers" across this nation of 403 million, social workers fit diaphragms and counsel sari-swathed village women on simpler methods of contraception (sample prescription: if nothing better is handy, a suppository of cotton wadding soaked in cooking oil may suffice). Despite back-country ignorance and considered opposition from leaders of India's 5,500,000 Roman Catholics, contraceptives are gaining slow acceptance in India...
Even headier are the big dreams at Vermont's tiny Marlboro College, founded in 1946 on three old farms in the Green Mountains. "We don't fit any stereotype," says President Thomas Ragle, 32, who came to teach and became president instead. Ragle is looking for "the creative intellectual, who may or may not score high on college boards." Not even accredited yet. Marlboro makes every student take a two-day, 16-hour comprehensive exam covering all fields. Flunkers may try again, but must pass to graduate. Also required: a rigorous research project so independently pursued that...
...launched an Atlas 700 miles into space. Seventy-six minutes and 5,000 miles after the blastoff, Timber Hitch plucked from the water a cylindrical instrument package ejected by the Atlas nose cone. Later, it was packed off to the States in a trombone case (it just happens to fit snugly within the shaped confines of a sliphorn...
...Adjustment (by Tennessee Williams) has Broadway's laureate of sex writing what for him is virtually light verse, finds Broadway's master of violence content with poked ribs and slammed doors. With here a bit of father fixation and there a bit of impotence anxiety or a fit of the shakes, Williams at times still manages to do wonders. But he has plainly written a comedy. It takes place on Christmas Eve instead of evoking St. Bartholomew's Day. It deals with a period of adjustment rather than with exclamation points of cannibalism and castration...