Word: rutted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thaler considers the ONR an ideal place for an idea man. "There are so many things going on there," he explains, "and you can find out about them just by walking down the corridor. It stimulates your thinking along oddball lines and keeps you from getting in a rut." The best example of that occurred two years ago, when he read a couple of published papers-one on the backscatter phenomenon, the other on ionized gases-and saw a method of connecting the two subjects that no one had seen before. The result was Project Tepee...
...rootless, tangled world. Playwright Gazzo has an ear for the harsh and guttural, an eye for the tarnished and messy, and too much of a mind for both. So crammed is his scene with lives near precipices and gutters as to cry out for someone merely in a rut. His people, as they talk and philosophize, become embarrassingly florid. His heroine is both a Jazz Age and a Beat Generation type: the self-pitying, self-dramatizing, greedily restless girl who destroys others on the way to destroying herself. But the play's realistic-romantic approach to her is blurred...
...then throws himself into his job until he switches out the lights in his modest two-family house at 3 a.m. (after an interlude of "reading and thinking alone"). Collects coins as a hobby, but now has little time for that or for his family-his glamorous Norwegian wife Rut and their two sons, Peter, 11, and Lars, 7. Brandt speaks Norwegian at home, is also fluent in English, made an excellent impression in the U.S. last winter...
...Athletics, for it is the manager who has contacts with both the players and administration. Managers feel they have a grave responsibility for team spirit. Sloppy arrangements of a trip may wreck the spirit of a team. Above all, managing is one way "to get out of a rut" by assuming some worthwhile responsibilities in a valuable extra-curricular activity...
...University is already alleviating one source of student grumbling by upgrading its purchasing standards on meat. The next improvement should be to free the student from the dining hall rut. Kresge and Harkness have never attempted to serve all of the students all of the time and yet they survive economically. The best program for College kitchens might be the suggested 18-meal week, or perhaps a six-day week with Sundays...