Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the forward wall supplies are limited. The varsity graduated six halfbacks last spring, and letterman Tony Davies is the only almost-sure starter in one of the slots this year. Billy Ward, last year called the "backbone of the freshmen" by Yardling Coach Dana Getchell, has not had a heavy workout this year because of illness, but he will have to be reckoned with soon...
...inscription facing Massachusetts Avenue says, "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." And at the same gate, as you leave the Yard: "Depart To Serve better Thy Country and Mankind." In the Yard, grow in wisdom: outside, serve mankind. And at Radcliffe there is talk of surrounding the quadrangle with a wall to buttress as unconfident identity. There will be a gate, and a similar inscription...
...Musical Walls. But as long as there are gadgeteers, the stereo business is bound to grow. Richard Ekstract, a director of the H-Fi Show, already is foretelling the day when whole houses will be jumping with electronic sound. Wall paint, says he, will contain "special sound-conducting chemicals mixed right into it. All you'll have to do is take your record player, a 3-in. by 3-in. box powered by molecular electronic amplifiers, and tune it onto your wall frequency. The walls will change color according to the music being played...
...major character is suddenly reduced to a bit part. Motivations are inept and mystifying. Her people are all of a piece or all in pieces. What redeems some of these flaws is the special McCullers gift, the moment of high emotion when a lonely soul rapping on the wall of his imprisoned self hears an answering knock...
...brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit of Queen Victoria-whose portrait stares disapprovingly at him from the wall. But when he attempts a bow, it occurs to him that this was a trick "Shel had never taught him. Indeed, at the first attempt the floor came up and hit him in the face...