Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching fellow at Harvard is a latter-day Minotaur--half student, half teacher--who is wholly ill at ease in either role. As a graduate student he sits in lectures taking frantic notes like any undergraduate. But as a section man he becomes an instructor and judge. The teaching fellow finds this ambiguous status baffling. Perhaps more than baffling--frustrating, irritating, even insulting...
...With all due respect and admiration for the three ill-fated astronauts, I cannot help wondering if our space program and its nebulous goals justify the past, present and future sacrifices and costs involved, and at the expense of down-to-earth domestic programs...
...Guildhall luncheon, as Prime Minister Harold Wilson sat grim-lipped, Kosygin made a ritualistic attack on the U.S. as "the only cause of the war in Viet Nam." He discouraged U.S. hopes for an accord on halting the anti-missile missile race. He also launched a rude and ill-advised diatribe against the new Bonn government of Kurt Kiesinger, warning that Nazism and militarism were on the rise in West Germany. In 15 hours of private talks, Kosygin and Wilson covered the gamut of the world's problems, but there was no sign that they agreed...
...theater when no vestige of dramatic joy can be scented, tasted, felt, seen or heard. Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has provided far more than its foul share of such evenings. East Wind, by a 41-year-old Polish expatriate, Leo Lehman, is a mighty ill zephyr that further solidifies the company's reputation as the home of seasoned failures...
...shot put by Northeastern's Andy Kenny, and heat-winning races by B.U.'s Dave Hemery in the hurdles and Harvard's Dave McKelvey in the 600 stood out. Most contestants from the seven area colleges were less concerned with times and scores than with escaping from the ill-equipped field house in time for supper...