Word: ike
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...Ike's America, in the last era when adults ran things, knew they knew better and wanted kids to be just like them. Social-guidance films, the postwar spawn of progressive educators and Grade-D auteurs, taught kids how to be popular and to say no, to think fast and to drive slowly. These beguiling curios have been fodder for documentaries (The Atomic Cafe, with the "duck-and-cover" Civil Defense shorts), for compilation reels (Sex Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued...
...used to mice in the kitchen but not in her bedroom... Ben Florman '99 spent a recent Thursday night stalking Elizabeth H. Winthrop '01, whom he claimed had stood him up. "Was he that blonde guy who pressed his face to the window?" mused Grafton Street bouncer I. L. Ike Black... Justin G. Muzinich '00 is newly single. Check out his Diesel Jeans!... Someone who looked quite a bit like Nicholas C. Fox '01 spent Monday afternoon sucking face with an unidentified girl on Mount Auburn Street. If you know who she might be, please call 5-9666... Little-known...
...simple and unadorned melody," as the author explains it, announcing his supposedly humble intentions. There are some echoes here--of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, even Harper Lee--and Haruf's gentle novel gives off a familiar backwoods, cold-mountain whiff. This time we're in Colorado cattle country, with Ike and Bobby Guthrie, ages nine and 10; their father Tom; two bachelor farmers, Harold and Raymond McPheron; and Victoria Roubideaux, a pregnant teenager with nowhere to go. Once the McPherons agree to care for Victoria, Haruf has roped in his plot as if it were the most cooperative of heifers...
...General Dwight Eisenhower was prepared to invade Normandy on June 5, but when his weather officer predicted storms over the English Channel, Ike postponed D-day for 24 hours...
...Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose argues that without air cover and paratrooper support, the first waves of Allied troops would have been incapable of fighting. Eisenhower could not have withdrawn them. Hitler could have held his positions, and Operation Overlord, the master plan for reconquering Europe, would have disintegrated. Ike would have lost his job, the Churchill government could have fallen, and President Franklin Roosevelt might have failed in his bid for a fourth term...