Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most expensive room in the house, and they want to show their friends where their money went." For Cinemactor Charlton (BenHur) Heston, Beckett designed a bathroom with a huge sunken Roman tub, dressing rooms, steam room, and a small outdoor gymnasium. Other Beckett bathrooms have magazine racks, telephones, sun lamps over the sink and reading lamps over the toilet. For Jules Stein, chairman of the huge M.C.A. talent agency, Beckett provided his master touch: a special rack for toothbrushes, one for each day of the week, each cleaned by ultraviolet light...
...Isosceles Triangles. Gone is the familiar desk to stash books and apple cores; each pupil every morning picks a plastic "tote tray" from a central rack. The kids hustle about all day in a bewildering variety of changes. Even the furniture arrangement is unpredictable. "They might be seated in rows, circles, squares or even isosceles triangles," says one teacher. "Or that day they might just want to clump around my desk...
Social Chance. Brecht begins where Lear ends: the world is a rack on which mankind is tortured. A character in one of the plays is asked to recite what is called the short catechism-"it'll get worse, it'll get worse, it'll get worse." Starting thus, Brecht might have developed a tragic sense, but he apparently balked at three basic elements of tragedy-the idea of inevitability, human guilt, and the tragic hero. In Brecht's plays, G.O.D. is indeed just a word, and Fate becomes the blind workings of social chance...
Jack the Shot, the darling of the local rooters who packed Worcester Memorial Auditorium, was fairly cold, although he did rack up 14 points in the first half. When he finally sank one of his fabled shots after 6:35, the fans practically tore the place apart. The same spectators ignored another hometown boy, Crimson captain Bob Bowditch--with some reason, Bowditch couldn't buy a basket, but he did contribute the best defensive efforts of the night, pulling several steals and blocking his usual number of shots...
...undefeated Missouri, rugged End Danny LaRose (6ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) crashes into the enemy backfield like a runaway tank: "I like to rack the punter. If the fullback tries to block you by going for your legs, run over him the first time. He'll shy away after that." Following an impressive sophomore year, LaRose had a bad season as a junior ("The publicity went to my head"), has rallied this season to become a prime prospect for the pros. In Missouri's 21-8 victory over Penn State, LaRose recovered two fumbles, batted down key passes...