Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Number of on this list of nuisances is the swimming requirement. Every year several students wind up on probation because they can't navigate the IAB pool twice, and there is always the threat that a student won't be allowed to graduate because he cannot swim fifty yards. The swimming requirement has been a bother too long both for students and administrators, and it should be abolished...
...view of many power experts, the problem goes far beyond breakaways, centering on the whole question of how to perfect the pool systems so that they can absorb major disturbances without being pulled down. Only two things seemed certain at week's end. It had been, as Texas' Democratic Representative Walter Rogers, chairman of the House Interior Committee's power subcommittee, wryly noted, "a hell of a flick." And it could well happen again...
...supposed to transmit thought. Unless it does, I don't get it." But the art certainly transmits Calder, and he ventured the thought that his vertically planed piece was a lot more "pigeon-proof" than the giant Reclining Figure by Henry Moore, installed in a reflecting pool near by. "Poor Henry," said Calder. "I do hate to think of his sculpture out there under all those pigeons...
Indoor & Outdoor Sports. But Operation Match also produced more than its share of fun dates. At Harvard, a varsity swimmer and amateur astronomer was desperately looking for someone who 1) would time his laps in the pool, 2) be willing to wake up at 3 a.m. to watch comets with him. The computer digested his questionnaire, squeezed out just the right ticket-a lithe, auburn-haired Radcliffe girl who was "fed up with Harvard pseudo intellectuals," wanted someone who "enjoyed sports, both indoor and outdoor." They are now going steady...
...hurls this modern Adam out of his paradise and into the dark night of the soul. For weeks, for months, he drifts alone and probably insane down a mighty river that is sometimes the Amazon and sometimes the River of Life. Then one day he looks into a forest pool and sees a face: "A face bare with privation but the wide eyes were clear, and behind the face the clouds of heaven rolled majestically across the world." A blaze of sunlight sparkles on the water. "He entered the sun's sparkle and drank. Mineral and cold...