Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feeling pugilistic? Then join the Harvard boxing club (which is open to everyone), and do more than hum the Rocky theme when thinking about boxing. And if the idea of hitting someone is (barely) too much for you, join the men's or women's Harvard rugby clubs (which are also open to everyone). Rugby, after all, is one of the fastest growing and most violent club sports at Northeastern colleges...
These questions hum in the background of Timberg's text: Does America need a warrior class? When? How trained? How protected from their own politicians? Should they be kept belowdecks like Ahab's harpooners and brought up only when there is a white whale to be killed? Vietnam was the white whale, sure enough...
...seems the Harvard community is so accustomed to the success of its squash program, winning a national championship has just become part of the ho-hum, everyday routine...
With 736 students, Hum 7, taught by Professor William Alfred, is the most popular course in the University for the second year running. John Kenneth Galbraith's class on "The Modern Industrial Society" came in second...
...climactic paintings of the early '60s, like Monastery, 1961, and Monsoon, 1961-62, abstractness prevails more, but there are still traces of figures within the cells of Monastery; a kind of prayer hum seems to emanate from its gray congested surface, suggesting collectivity through the soft friction of forms. Monsoon encases a memory of the nightmare raft trip, with a disjointed white calligraphy playing, slower than lightning, over the darkness behind it. Its movements seem just on the point of incoherence, as though an already indeterminate Cubist space had been subject to unbearable stress. But it doesn't fall apart...