Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later did I realize what an impact he had made on me. I was walking through the Yard when I happened to be struck by the slender, bright-white spire of Mem Church slicing the dark sky. I stopped, looked, and tried to concentrate. "What the hell are you doing standing like a fool gazing at the sky?" I asked myself. There was an embarrassing silence. Then it started raining and I went inside...
...Viet Rock, a "presentation," by 34-year-old Seattle-born Playwright Megan Terry. Improvisation-which is to say absence of craft-is the technique of the evening, as seven G.I. recruits are followed from birth to induction center to a saloon in Saigon where they find that war is hell and that the military tend to turn civilians into soldiers. "Viet Nam may be the second in a series of contained wars in which our best young men go and get ground into the dirt," explains Playwright Terry. "I am trying to express my feelings about...
...shapes. These, they hope, can some day be used to program a computer to recognize and identify radar signatures more quickly than human operators. Their work is proceeding slowly. "Once you get past a few simple shapes like cones, cylinders and spheres," says Brindley, "the mathematical analysis goes to hell and becomes incredibly difficult...
...Fantail. The Conserver's C.O., Lieut. Commander Fred Hilder, 34, a plump, pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian, has deep respect for the current Soviet captain's pushing ability. Says Hilder: "He's a hell of a big bear of a man, barechested, and wears a white cloth to shade his head from the sun. And he's got a ship that can turn on a dime...
...grace." At the same time, it should develop a "sense of worth" based largely on "passionately held beliefs and passionately felt responses to experience." Not at all incidentally, good schooling should also provide "an escape from boredom" and "lead us to laugh in the face of heaven or hell. Education should teach us to play the wise fool rather than turn us into the solemn...