Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football quarterback, views huddles as T groups and wears his helmet to mixers so the girls will know who he is. Megaphone Mark, the campus radical, has to rehearse the spontaneous outrage that he expects to deliver at his first press conference. Such characters appear in Doonesbury, a comic strip of campus life that began in the Yale Daily News in 1968, and is now syndicated in 125 papers, from the Washington Post to the San Francisco Chronicle. This week American Heritage Press will publish an anthology...
...starkly elemental. For him, poetry is "the record of how the forces of the universe try to redress some balance disturbed by man." In his taut, compulsive poems, both the error and its redress are usually violent, sometimes disgusting, occasionally awesome. From a bullet-pierced soldier's helmet come "cordite oozings of Gallipoli." Giant crabs, "God's only toys," tear each other apart. Even a thistle is "a grasped fistful of splintered weapons." Hughes sees a grim beauty in all this. His ability to make the reader see it too has placed him, at 40, among the handful...
...someone has exposed the evil myth surrounding motorcycles. It is unfortunate in our society that people who rebel against conformity (in this case automobiles) must be looked down upon as degenerates. Mr. Hughes has accurately expressed the feelings of 3,000,000 people. To you, sir, I doff my helmet...
...money was collected in a helmet which symbolized the 101 Americans who died in Southeast Asia during the past week. The marchers obtained this figure-which represents the highest toll in five-and-a-half months-from the Record American on the way to New England...
...towering columns of dust. Overhead, gunships darted around in search of enemy troops. Giant Chinook helicopters flapped into long-abandoned bases, depositing men and massive earth-moving machines. At Lang Vei, a halftrack pulled up loaded with expectant-looking G.I.s. One soldier had a single word painted on his helmet: "Laos...