Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jumping, the Crimson's traditional Achilles heel, was ruinous. The Crimson leapers fared even worse than usual on Middlebury's big fifty meter jump. Bob Livermore turned in the best Crimson performance coming in twenty-sixth...
...judge by his poetry, Larkin is anything but brown and passionless. Larkin has blood in his eye and a shout in his throat, but his emotions are caged in an iron ordinariness of language, and the cage is caged in an intricate grille of rhyme and meter. By dint of prodigious effort and still more prodigious skill, Larkin marvelously merges form and content. The bars and his imprisoned emotions disappear; in their stead a poem stands...
...ancient rivalries that lead to the Archduke's assassination at Sarajevo, thence to the rape of Belgium, and the devastating battles of attrition launched at Verdun and the Marne. Vignettes at the Czarist court are fascinating, and one oddly heartwarming sequence (marred by a fake shot of a meter clocking up a fare) shows the famed 600 vintage Paris taxis rattling off to the front as troop transports...
Married. Ann Packer, 22, British track star of the Tokyo Olympics, winner of a silver medal in the 400-meter dash, a gold for her world record in the 800; and Robbie Brightwell, 25, sprinter-captain of the British men's track team, himself a silver medalist in the 1,600-meter relay; in Moulsford, England...
...poetry in the Advocate is consistent--it lacks consistency in rhyme, meter, or form. In fact, poetry is not really the proper word for most selections; abbreviated prose arranged in irregular patterns would be a more appropriate description. For some reason, most Advocate poets feel that poetry is the least demanding art, that traditional techniques and discipline are of little importance in their craft...