Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mentor, unfortunately, Yul Brynner demonstrates exactly the same monotonous cold tyranny that made him so successful in The King and I. Helen Hayes, never bad, has nearly always been better than she is as the iron dowager who shuts out the world. Her stern voice and manner fit the part, but her face, a bit rosy, rounded, and American, rarely becomes the countenance of an empress...
...hundred cyrotrons can fit into a thimble. Cryotrons are little coils of hair-thin wire wrapped around a piece of straight wire...
...Menon had kept his hair-trigger temper under control; but the following morning, when he discovered that the U.S. and four other powers were already circulating a resolution which began, "Having heard statements from representatives of the governments of India and Pakistan ..." Menon's control broke. In a fit of irritation he implied that Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon was anti-Indian, later accused Pakistan's Noon of "sheer impertinence," and snapped arrogantly: "We have suffered in the past in this discussion by trusting to the good sense of everybody all around...
...astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...
...first diversion from independent study is--and we bring this up with some hesitation--the increasing professionalism of extra-curricular activities. Drama is probably the prime example--with nine productions in two weeks last spring--but publications, radio, and music probably fit the pattern equally well. As the end product of students who came up the ranks learning-by-doing, this is natural and not necessarily a Bad Thing; but as a barrier to independent study, it must be taken into account in planning the curriculum, for it concerns over half the undergraduates...