Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton's captain John Hartnett and Harvard's sophomore Chris Pardee are getting to be old rivals. In this winter's Harvard-Princeton-Yale indoor meet, Pardee left the Tiger several inches behind, with a winning jump...
...week later by flipping over 6'7 1/4" to beat Pardee by an inch and win the Heptagonals. They met again a week later at the ICUA games and Pardee raised the stakes; after tying Hartnett at 6'7", he rolled over 6'9" on the first jump. The Tiger captain crashed through the bar three times...
...multiplicity of things; he is fascinated with mirrors because they multiply. A poet cannot pin a thing down for eternity in a single phrase, nor a philosopher force it into a rigid system. Variety must be respected: "Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or the bird...
...while their mothers hacked with mattocks in the maize patches. Down at the riverbank, "Captain" Nelson Maibolwa puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny, coal-black Captain Nelson peered down the rutted dirt track from the south as proudly as if Emma, Lady Hamilton were being piped aboard the poop deck. It was another load of passengers...
...nimrods who want to shoot their own fur coats, the Sarapiqui jungle is home to five different varieties of wild cat, ranging from the little margay (about the size of an overgrown Siamese) to El Tigre himself: the jaguar-third largest cat in the world (behind the true tiger and the African lion...