Word: turtlenecked
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...obsessively on this subject. The title begins in irony. Konrad Vost is neither passionate nor an artist but rather an epitome of timid rationality. Hawkes stresses his hero's stylized anonymity, his "small perfectly round gold-rimmed spectacles, his two ill-fitting suits of black serge, his black turtleneck shirts, his pointed shoes that were always worn at the heels and covered with a faint dusting of powdered concrete from the walls of unfinished buildings ..." Vost dwells in a characterless (and imaginary) European town, works as "a mere clerk in a dismal pharmacy" and plays doting father...
World War I gave him his chance, and he distinguished himself as second-in-command of the famous Rainbow Division. He had already begun to disregard dress regulations. He walked through the trenches in riding breeches, a turtleneck sweater, and a 4-ft.-long muffler knitted by his mother. The doughboys, unlike the G.I.s a generation later, adored him and called him "the fighting dude...
...Harvard lost to Princeton on February 18, 1978 for the first time since February 28, 1967. The icemen had a 4-6 record at Watson Rink and became the first hockey team in history to have Home Ice Disadvantage. Brian Petrovek and his pads were graduated, as Petro donned turtleneck sweaters for games and sat in the press box watching John Hynes and Brian Murphy take his position, not necessarily his place. There was no Billy Hozack on the power play. And there was a fight at the Beanpot...
State of emergency?? Mike Dukakis didn't look too alarmed to me, all cozy and mellow in his turtleneck and sweater. For us local sports addicts, the problem lately hasn't been the snow, it's been a lack of action so severe that we've all been sent in search...
...NOTEBOOK: Even though out of action last night, George Hughes's black turtleneck has drawn raves from fashion-conscious spectators around the ECAC. And while we're on the subject of personal grooming, the fans would like to see Kevin O'Donaghue grow his macho mustache back at least by the Beanpot...