Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three positions, Navy will have Bill Burns, West Overton, and Captain John Williamson. The Middies can't quite match Harvard at either end of the ladder, but they are always in shape--and you never know when Kileff might run out of breath...
...markings on Red Chinese Air Force planes: The North Vietnamese air force markings are similar in shape and colors except for the absence of the small Chinese character located in the center of the red star: Hanoi's star is unadorned...
...bets are down: the U.S. is relying more heavily than ever on college education to shape its destiny. To get into college, kids claw for high marks even in grade school. Parents scratch for dollars, plunge into debt. State taxes soar. Yet how the bet comes out depends on solitary teachers in secluded classrooms?and the number of bored, hostile and inadequate college teachers adds up to something between a serious concern and an outright scandal...
Which is not to say that the Island is a freshman magazine; only three freshman have appeared in the publication so far. But Robert Shaw and John Plotz, both '69, were evidently no sooner settled in Wigglesworth than the project began to take shape; they have produced three mimeographed issues since mid-winter, publishing some of the best writers in Cambridge...
...syndrome ("One doesn't invent anything, you see; ideas are dredged up from goodness knows where--they're there abiding, lying in wait..."), there are a few gems, among them her recollections of the Irish poet A.E. (George Russell) ("He took me under his wing and licked me into shape as a mother cat her kitten") and her suggestion that Christopher Robin may have indeed have been a bit light on his feet...