Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Man of the Year wear his hair long enough to drag the ground. Let the girls wear rough workman's clothing and boots. Let them express themselves with the skull-cracking noises they call music. We of the Beaten Generation can endure all that, but in the end we expect them to make a better world...
...anything except that he had this terrible itch to dance. Faced with an audition before Martha Graham, he was uncertain as to whether he should leave his shoes on or go barefoot. So he compromised and danced in his socks. But once he got his feet off the ground, he quickly became the barefoot boy with cheek, choreographing numbers in which dancers simply walked across the stage like pedestrians, stood rigidly still for minutes on end, or cavorted and slithered to the sound of raindrops or the recorded voice of a telephone operator giving the time check...
...substance that goes through the intestines at the same speed as food, the brilliant red dye can tell a physician how long nourishment is staying in a disturbed digestive tract. Where had the dye come from? A small New York City manufacturer. What was in it? Boiled and ground masses of female cochineal bugs, Dactylopius coccus, whose fat contains the dye. And where had they come from? The Canary Islands and Peru. In both places the insects appeared to be infected with cubana...
...their special moments of triumph are as authentic as only shoptalk can be. Said a player of the awesome Night Train Lane: "He's got pipes for legs, all bone, with just strings of muscle holding him together." Once, after being tackled, Y. A. Tittle "got off the ground and reeled back to the huddle and finally said, 'Christ, I don't . . , I can't think of any plays.' " Or the reticent Milt Plum, savoring a game-winning touchdown pass: "You pull off something like that, and there doesn't need to be anything...
John Rawls, professor of Philosophy, will introduce a motion asking the Faculty to express opposition to the 2-S deferment as "inequitable." Last month, after Rawls had offered a similar resolution, the Faculty tabled the motion on the ground that it was an "abstract" matter--something that should not be considered by the Faculty as a collective body...