Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bill McCurdy's team isn't loafing now, however. While the baseball team practices below in Briggs Cage, eager track men train in informal workouts on the balcony boards...
Rhythmically and spatially, like commuters crisscrossing in a train depot, his dancers move independently of one another. The effect is often riveting. Summerspace evokes moods and memories of sunshiny days by the sea; How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run, danced to the accompaniment of Composer John Cage sitting onstage, smoking, drinking champagne and reading aloud from his memoirs, is zany, true, and touching all at once...
These developments are causing a fundamental change in the nature of ROTC. The emphasis of the program is shifting from the training of reserve officers to the selection and preparation of professional career officers. It takes over three years to train an officer for a Polaris submarine; ROTC just doesn't have the time...
...wasn't there for that. Obviously I was lower class. I couldn't depend for my present security on status and money because I didn't have either. Doing work that was oriented toward training for the professional class was very threatening to me personally. I didn't want to train myself outside of class to work in that framework. So I didn't want to do a darn bit for school. But the Jesuits were rather disciplined and they didn't like that stuff...
...Think Tank. The program might have been laid out according to the McLuhan notion that in TV, form counts more than content. In M:I the Tinkertoy stuff on the screen is far more important than plot logic. In one elaborate ruse, the M:I team stole a whole train and pulled one car full of passengers into a shed where, with the help of films and sound effects, they convinced the passengers that there had been a wreck. In another, they saved the day by starting an earthquake with supersonic waves. This week, they unnerved a murder-for-hire...