Word: pinnings
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Although Robert Dawson ignores regular metres, his sounds and images form gracefully ordered verse. Color motifs and imperfect, desultory rhymes help to hold his stanzas together. In place of extended metaphor Dawson uses sharp, emphatic verbs to pin down the sensations of a tragicomic family trip...
Harvard heavyweight Tack Chace also contributed a pin by quickly squashing M.I.T.'s Harry Moser into the mat with a cross-face after only 1:29 of the first period...
...Engineers' only pin was at 191, where Dick Nygren rode Harvard's Bill Malugen for most of the match before getting a quick takedown and fall at 1:47 of the third period. Norm Hawkins of M.I.T. controlled the Crimson's Dave Worcester for the last two periods and took a 9 to 4 decision. Worcester was starting in place of injured sophomore Paul Padlack...
Even more serious, the President's secrecy inhibits improvement of policy and correction of past mistakes. It prevents those who seek to forestall the repetition of these mistakes from pin-pointing responsibility and analyzing errors. And it conceals only temporarily: secrecy cannot preclude the long range consequences of a misguide policy...
...those admirers who have been waiting hopefully for a major talent to produce a major work. Instead of expanding, the Updike compass appears to be narrowing, as if its wielder were desirous of proving that he can, if need be, engrave his graceful arabesques on the head of a pin. Of the Farm barely qualifies as a novel; it is too brief, inactive and unambitious. But as a delicate cameo that freezes three people in postures that none of them finds comfortable, it is almost faultless. Its achievement is that with in credibly economical means, it suggests that each...