Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's football team yesterday began to prepare itself once again for its 80th encounter with Yale. Although inactive for three days, the team that worked out yesterday was in better shape than the squad that drilled Friday in the Bowl...
...theater as a "love-hate relationship," he emphasizes that "there are aspects of the professional theater which appall me." Most simply, he decries the "big business of Broadway" which emphasizes a criterion of achievement "only incidently related to merit." And he finds the theater in "pretty dismal shape when we have to tout Albee as our leading playwright...
...atonement for past sins. In the earlier period the narrator is (as Carruth was) a poet, editor, and a nihilist who thinks that "1 must be really half dead" but is not particularly disturbed by the fact: most of contemporary America, he implies, is in pretty much the same shape. The agent of his undoing is a World War II French waif, Charley Dupont, who "was born in Europe's misery and came to America in his youth, imbued with the irony of hope." Dupont bears a disturbing message: "It's okay to believe," and the grail...
Although the Crimson is in top mental shape, the team's physical condition leaves something to be desired. Terry Winslow, right fullback, is a doubtful starter with a sprained ankle. Chris Ohiri, the high-scoring wing, complained of a head-cold yesterday and may not be up to his top form today...
Another revelation: while he was still in Europe as commander of SHAPE, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden "expressed the hope that [if I should be elected] I might appoint someone other than Dulles" as U.S. Secretary of State. "I made no reply," he writes, "except to say that I knew of no other American so well qualified as Foster to take over the duties of that particular office...