Word: goldfish
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Yalemen were way behind Harvardmen at gulping goldfish in the late '30s, but last week they were in the van of the latest undergraduate seizure: the Dirty Shirt Club. The idea is simple. Each club member puts up $10, takes turns at wearing the same unwashed pink cotton shirt for a day at a time. The man wearing the shirt the day it falls apart wins...
...test their tempers, he drove around town blasting his horn at motorists ahead of him at stop lights. He crinkled paper continuously in movies, badgered salesgirls by such tricks as taking 10 minutes to choose between two pairs of cheap socks and going to the goldfish counter of a five & ten and insisting on buying an elusive little fish that was hiding on the bottom of the tank (it took the girl 20 minutes to capture it). At Five Points, Atlanta's busiest intersection, Keasler and Photographer Ed Pierce, who concealed his camera, snapped the faces of male passers...
There had been no table pounding, no angry words. Every day the company brought in coffee & doughnuts during the afternoon break. A union negotiator enlivened the tedious hours of debate by dumping half a dozen goldfish into the water cooler. Within the first weeks, the negotiators had come to terms on most fringe issues...
...three prose pieces by Raoul Gersten, Fred Gwynne, and Jerome Rubenstein in this predominately poetry issue. Gersten's story is the smoothest. Gwynne attempts the difficult description of the relationship between a man and his wife as it finally disintegrates. Unfortunately he has worked in a couple of goldfish which weaken rather than strengthen the story: the characters are warped to fit the symbol, rather than the symbol developing naturally out of insight into their behavior...
...first problem the girls encountered occurred shortly after the turtle took up residence in a University Hall goldfish bowl. After days of planning and ballyhoo, the trainers discovered to their chagrin that the turtle couldn't swim. They blamed it on the goldfish...