Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Residents of New Jersey sometimes liken their state to a keg of beer tapped at both ends, with New York and Philadelphia drawing off the state's talent, energy and brains. The residue is a flat, zingless brew that satisfies no one. Among the dregs is higher education -a field in which rich New Jersey has the poorest showing of effort among all the 50 states...
...trouble is that no one else seems capable of ambushing Cornell. Princeton is vastly improved, but Columbia, the second-place finisher last year, has fallen flat on its face, Just the same, beginning with its match against Penn tomorrow, Harvard has to wrestle as though somewhere, somehow, somebody is going to beat Cornell...
Baker will probably run only one race, the two-mile, and he'll be shooting for Walt Hewiett's Harvard indoor record of 9:11.6. His competitors will include high school sensation Art Dulong of Randolph, who ran a 9:09.8 on a flat asphalt track last week...
...problem is that, either by choice or technical incompetence, Wheeler and his actors don't vary their dramatic diction from scene to scene. The result is heavy-handed and curiously flat. We are left with the impression that Brecht is haltingly trying to say that it's hard cheese when Big People, like SS officers, make things tough on Little People, like Jews and Communists. I think the play is worth more than that. It is always simple-minded to present Brecht as a Champion of Liberal Causes, or to make his works play like second-rate Odets. But this...
...Gimmicks. There is an almost machinelike singlemindedness about him. His most vehement cuss words are "darn" and "dad-gum." A jut-jawed six-footer, he never smokes, drinks little, swims and plays tennis to remain at a flat-bellied 180 Ibs.-only 10 Ibs. over his cadet weight. Says Major General Richard Stilwell, commander of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand: "He has no gimmicks, no hand grenades or pearl-handled pistols. He's just a very straightforward, determined man." Few who know him doubt that he will some day be Army Chief of Staff...