Word: irregularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard musical world resembles a huge unwieldy Ptolemaic universe--full of irregular and continuing spheres and orbits. The sphere closest to the center is the one containing the musical Leviathans: The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Harvard University Band and the Harvard Glee Club (with its somewhat dependent satellite the Radcliffe Choral Society). These are the big prestigious organizations; they involve the most people and are the first to attract the attention of neophyte musicians. They are the only musical organizations enjoying anything like official status. Like all extracurricular activity here, they receive no operating support from the University, but their...
Green Beret master sergeant who is now "military editor" of muckraking Ramparts magazine, testified that Vietnamese irregulars, usually Montagnard tribesmen, cut off the right ears of slain enemies to collect up to $10 per capita bounty from Special Forces. "Cutting off an ear," he explained, "was considered proof that you had killed a man." It was a gruesome practice indulged in by irregular troops-not the regular Vietnamese army. Asked about Vietnamese mistreatment of prisoners, Duncan said: "Beatings and general brutality were the order of the day. Normally, when it started, you would turn around and light a cigarette...
...Bamboo Poles. Scarcely three miles south of the DMZ, the Communists attempted to overrun the camp of Con Thien, defended by two companies of Marines and three companies of Vietnamese irregular forces advised by a U.S. Special Forces team. The entire 4th Battalion of the North Vietnamese 821st Regiment attacked, led by two companies of sappers who cut their way through the Marines' barbed-wire perimeter by thrusting ahead of them satchel charges and bangalore torpedoes mounted on the tips of bamboo poles. The Marines hit back with rapid M-16 rifle fire and grenades, plus twin...
From his earliest veils, Louis progressed to more complicated "floral" patterns, then to what many admirers consider his most sophisticated works. These are known as Louis' "unfurleds": irregular zebra stripes placed in such a way that they seem to almost tear the canvas apart with their decisiveness. In the 1960s, he turned to narrow, bold, successive rows of vertical stripes. Just before he died, Louis began to stretch and frame his canvases so that the stripes ran diagonally, sprinting tensely upwards, onwards and off at the corners. Mute and vibrant, they hang stiffly like heraldic banners for some brave...
...treatment of acne. Other women complain that they don't menstruate while on the pills. This is seldom true, because of the pills' regularizing effect. A Los Angeles mother says that the pill was "magic-a godsend" for her 15-year-old daughter, whose menstruation was so irregular and heavy that she suffered serious blood loss and near-shock, and needed transfusions. On the pill for six months, she now has "pink cheeks, regular periods, a good figure and has gained ten pounds." Wryly, a young woman in Miami says, "They've improved my complexion, done away...