Word: hammeringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Further Harvard strength came in the hammer throw, where Crimson hurlers Ed Ajootian and Tom Lenz placed third and fifth respectively. The especially strong competition in this event prevented a better showing by the Harvard contingent, as Bruin Tim Bruno placed second behind Dartmouth's Ken Jansson, who won the event with a heave...
...METAPHOR which Gardner places like a frame around his book acts in this way. On the first page he tells a story from Norse myth: Thor, Woden and the gods must fight off the trolls, the forces of chaos, but the only weapon remaining to them is Thor's hammer. For us, Gardner says, that hammer is art. Writers must take it up and strike, before the Gotterdammerung. The tale acts as a light, disarming way to begin a book with such a solemn title. But from the first pages forward Gardner relies on the logical force of this tale...
...Gardner lacks the formal power, the rhetorical skill which Arnold employed to make the abstract palatable and comprehensible. Gardner's book is structureless. The divisions between chapters are arbitrary, and just about the only overall element of the book that seems planned is the appearance of Thor's hammer at start and finish...
...slippers, so Gelsey is fanatic. A toe shoe is a rigid object. To get one of her 50 pairs in shape, she brushes Fabulon floor wax into the shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise, she next pounds the stiffness out with a tinsmith's hammer. Then she sews on ribbons and bits of elastic. Done? Almost. Just before a performance she pulls the shoes on over socks, brushes them with fast-drying alcohol and removes the socks. Putting the shoes back on, she says, "That's that, the shoes are comfortable, noiseless and hard...
...Lenz continued his mastery of the hammer throw, winning with a toss of 58.42 meters. Tom McDevitt took second and Ed Ajotian nabbed fourth to give the Crimson total control of the event. Dave Kinney and Mike Stewart teamed up for one-two in the javelin, Kinney winning with a 211-ft., 3-in. toss; and Joe Pelligrini tossed the discuss 47.88 meters, good for second-place honors...