Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Archer's puzzling mumbo jumbo, the idea of enlistment excites Langrish, begins to seem a wonderful means of escape from his dull life. He misses the enlistment date, but while taking a walk one day, stumbles on to the battalion camp and is forced into service against his will. His complaints are brushed off. He sees Archer from time to time, but the captain, now a major and soon a colonel, seems not to recognize...
Despite its own mumbo jumbo and its deliberate lack of clarity, The Image of a Drawn Sword is a disturbing allegory: the desperate desire of Mr. Average for an existence in which love and comradeship replace tension and uncertainty. The book's elaborate use of symbolism, its bewildering time scheme in which past & present merge crazily, sharply recall the brooding of Novelist Franz Kafka. There is one important difference: Kafka's theme was man's search for God. Brooke's dazed hero would settle for something which he almost, but never quite, comes out and names...
...Yardlings swept to an easy 84 5/6 to 22 1/6 conquest of the Jumbo freshmen on the Tufts indoor oval...
...longert distances it was no contest. Dave Cairns was never pushed in the mile and won by 30 yards in a slow 4:37.9. Paul Judy came up fast to take third in the event, behind Jumbo Angy Farina. John Pankey followed Dave Gregory's smooth pacing in the two-mile and kicked ahead in the last...
Bane and Backus are not outstanding with the shot, and top Jumbo pole vaulter Charlie Chislom is ailing. Even in top condition Chisolm would probably not come close to the Crimson's Bob Mello. Mello and Bill Geick will get their broad jump competition 21-feet leapers Jones, Al Price...