Word: moonlit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unnerving Self-Confidence. Harvard is less and less a place where the undergraduate explores generally, shunning commitment, reading broadly, flicking out, drinking beer and pondering the mysteries of the universe on long moonlit strolls along the Charles. Undergraduates are studying harder than ever; yet it is their estrangement from time-honored academic discipline that worries some teachers. Says John Womack, an assistant professor of history whose jeans and leather jacket are indistinguishable from those of his students and who himself graduated from Harvard in 1959: "Students just simply refuse to learn what they don't want to learn. They...
...frail, solitary boat pitches and tosses in an angry, moonlit sea. An apocalyptic horseman gallops around a desolate racecourse, scythe at the ready. Christ, risen from the grave, appears to Mary Magdalene in a somber garden, Macbeth conspires with the witches on a wind-blasted heath, and Siegfried happens across the Rhine maidens bathing seductively in a river bordered by strangely twisted trees...
...just past 3 a.m. last week when the deafening roar of high explosive split the quiet moonlit night. The blast slammed the Greek tanker Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
...Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater in a production of attentive care. The actors' skill, however, cannot fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands...
...Moonlit Pilots. By any reckoning, CAT has had more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...