Word: gerbils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball quiz that appeared in Monday's Crimson. If you answered between 100 and 108 questions correctly, you have wasted your life; 80-100, quit school and do play-by-play; 60-80, do stats for the Red Sox; 40-60, write for Sport magazine; below 40, a gerbil...
Here come the comments: "Ooooh, aaaaaah THE SPACEMAN. Did he say anything weird--Is he really wigged out--Is Don Zimmer really a gerbil--Why didn't he pitch the last half of the season--Can I get some of the stuff he smokes so I can be like...
Zimmer did not approve of Lee's thoughts and comments about him, especially after a photograph of Zimmer which appeared in Sports Illustrated was captioned, "Being called a gerbil is O.K. if you win." Lee was accused of smoking marijuana on the team plane by various members of the press. He refused to "dress up" when the team appeared publicly, and he did a lot of strange things. Flaky things...
...Gerbil Cages. Weber-style classes overflow into nearby corridors with an abundance of playthings that teachers in regular classrooms use only sparingly. There are cages of gerbils, collections of shells and leaves, art corners, carpeted areas where children can sprawl while they read. To encourage math and science, there is more than the usual amount of measuring equipment, from tape measures to stop watches. To encourage reading and writing, most of the materials have "activity cards" posing questions. Near a science book lying on a second-grade windowsill, for instance, the card asks: "Do you think our tree...