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Nearly 60 percent of the student body commutes and must therefore forego extra-curricular activities in favor of strap-hanging and traffic jamming...
...wonder if other readers noticed the psychological tie-in between Colonel Stapp's stern parents and his obviously masochistic choice of career [Sept. 12]. The religiously strict father, and the mother who "tried to strap the unruly youngster in bed," surely drove him to rebel (in pursuit of scientific studies), but later to conform, strapping himself into the rocket sled in death-bent compensation. The many protective straps that he has invented, as well as other devices, show a fortunate outcome of an emotionally unhealthy childhood...
...quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman's arm, but alas, his was too high to reach. He had to carry a looped handkerchief on his elbow on which she could rest her hand, after the manner of a carriage strap." Author Woodbury, a onetime anthropologist and a ninth-generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor of the family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John Goffe's Legacy crackles with wit, adds a few asterisks...
...game started: two rows of massive, helmeted figures squatted opposite each other. Each colossus, his chin pressed against a leather strap, glowered across at the expression of his opponent's wire-protected face. Positioned in this manner, the seven men of each line almost crashed together with their helmets. Calmly the four backs crouched behind them--the three running backs and the Signal Caller (Playmaker...
...call him) had a strange boyhood. He learned to speak Portuguese long before he was permitted to pick up English; he was seldom allowed to play with other children, and his closest companion was his parents' Negro servant, a pro boxer from Barbados. When his mother tried to strap the unruly youngster into bed for his afternoon nap, he would shout at the top of his voice, and in Portuguese: "Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation...