Word: goths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oppenheimer, who had devoured so much more learning than the typical American Gothic freshman, consider himself, of all people, a Goth? Why did this young man, apparently quivering with life, bless Harvard for bringing him "almost alive"? Did learning somehow cut him off from life instead of doing its normal job of bringing him closer to it? If so, that was not because Oppenheimer concentrated on technical studies. He decided that physics was his first interest, but he did not enter into that austere and noble priesthood, as some did, without exposure to the world of ideas that lay beyond...
...billed as "The Match' of the Half-Century." Hungary's soccer squad, Olympic champions, came to England with a record of 25 international games without a defeat. The British, celebrating the goth anniversary of a game they had exported all over the world, also had quite a record: no invading team had ever won an international match on English soil...
This week's cover story on Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees marks the goth time that a figure in the sports world has been on the cover of TIME. The first athlete to appear was a hard-jawed, 28-year-old mauler by the name of Jack Dempsey. That was in September 1923. Two weeks later, he fought his famous match with Luis Angel ("Bull") Firpo, at which boxing fans paid a total of $1,888,822 to see Dempsey retain his world heavyweight championship in 3 minutes, 57 seconds of furious fighting...
...Yalie's antumnal migrations to other campuses in the wake of the football team have a disadvantageous effect. Like a primitive Goth who has been sightseeing in Rome, the Yalie becomes dissatisfied with the inadequacies of his own culture...
...Last week, chipper and tanned, Old Man Stagg spryly demonstrated a few football plays on the thick, velvety turf of Chicago's Stagg Field. He was there as guest of honor at a celebration of his goth birthday (actual date...