Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...registration envelope is a bulging, irregular bag of mysteries. That year it was stranger than ever. The Phillips Brooks House activities questionnaire, for example, offered a momentous choice of activities--the Red Cross, War Service Committee, or the Committee of Public Safety, if you dug civil defense...
...them ended up at a single-story, soot-stained building on the industrial outskirts of Frankfurt, West Germany. From the presses within has come in recent years an irregular, handset journal, Grani (Facets), containing some of the major finds of contemporary Soviet letters. Among them: poems from Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in 1956, a year before the novel appeared in the West, and a transcript of the 1966 Sinyavsky-Daniel trial. Grani also printed excerpts from the now-famous memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind (TIME, Dec. 1, 1967), an account of life under Stalinist terror...
...seconds, but also gives off light flashes just about half as often. The conferees were beginning to ponder this new information when a tardy University of California astronomer, David Cudaback, still bleary-eyed from long nights at the Lick Observatory, arrived with word that the light flashes are inexplicably irregular: they speed up or slow down by as much...
Characterized by acquaintances as sarcastic, facetious and sometimes brilliantly witty, The The Lampoon was recently acclaimed for its Time and Playboy parodies and for Alligator, a parody of the James Bond spy stories. The Harvard Lampoon, has always suffered from irregular health, even during the years it nurtured writers like John Updike and George Plimpton. But in the past year and a half it has shown a marked decline, and its recent extensive exploration of America taxed it irreperably...
Along with a considerable amount of overdoing, there are a great many misconceptions. A common one involves the benefits of popular sports and games, such as swimming, tennis and golf, which attract the weekend athlete. They are good exercise, but they are generally practiced in such an irregular and undisciplined way as to be of doubtful value. Says Manhattan's Dr. Hans Kraus, physical therapist, author (Backache, Stress and Tension), part-time mountain climber and the man who eased Pesident Kennedy's aching back: "I'm very much for golf as a game...