Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stern portion of Evans scraped along the starboard side of Melbourne, the carrier's crew sprang to action. One Australian sailor leaped aboard Evans' stern, and was soon followed by many others. They managed to lash Evans1 196-foot-long stern section to Melbourne long enough for dozens of stranded U.S. sailors to be lifted to the carrier. Scrambling through the unfamiliar ship, the Australian seamen coolly rescued their comrades. Sailors who had leaped from Evans into the water were soon searched out and rescued, some of them by the carrier's helicopter, others by whaleboats...
Cortazar displays his own exotic humor best in a section entitled "The Instruction Manual." As if briefing a group of anthropologists from Uranus, he details precise ways to cry, sing, climb stairs and comb hair: "There's something like a bone wing from which extends a series of parallels, and the comb isn't the bone but the gaps which penetrate space." Cortazar's ability to present common objects from strange perspectives, as if he had just invented them, makes him a writer whose work stimulates a sense of rare expectation...
...Section men from Soc Rel 148 laid plans for a follow-up course to continue radical dialogue in the Spring term. The Soc Rel department looked over a tentative plan for the new course and asked the section men to clear up touchy questions of "radical bias" in the course...
Students from a Soc Rel 136 section painted the bare wooden walls surrounding renovated Harvard Hall, despite the attempts of a Harvard hall despite the attempts of a Harvard policeman to stop them. The policeman succeeded, however, in taking the painters' bursar's cards...
Stauder--the director of this Spring's radical course, Soc Rel 149--said that the Soc Rel 148 section men reached their decision after considering...