Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protagonist is Lyman Ward, a writer-historian with a crippling bone disease. His wife has long since left him. Ward describes his son as "Paul Goodman out of Margaret Mead," and between father and son there exists not so much gap as "gulf." Believing "in life chronological rather than in life ex istential," Ward seeks to re-create the frontier past from his grandfather's relics and the prolific papers and sketches of his artist grandmother...
...Sadly, Ward compares their marriage to his own and predictably concludes that modern marital combinations get too little help from society in finding any angle of repose whatever. Even Victorian inhibition seems less destructive than the free-flow orgiastic analysis that drowns so many modern marriages in sexual debate and self-indulgence...
...almost as colorful off the ice as on. Sanderson, with a Playboy-style pad and an unbuttoned lip, plays the role of a freaked-out Joe Namath. "Scoring goals," he likes to say, "isn't the only climax in my life." Esposito festoons his locker with trinkets to ward off "evil spirits." Orr has become a prospective millionaire. He is co-proprietor of a successful hockey camp and is just launching a hockey equipment company with projected first-year sales...
Glut of Longhairs. Ghostwriting on a modest scale has been a campus ploy for many years. But turning the practice into big business has taken men of vision like Ward Warren, 22, a senior at Babson College near Boston. Last fall Warren sank $25,000-earned in the delicatessen and the snack bar he owns-into Termpapers Unlimited. He now says that he is close to breaking even. "The secret of my success," he says earnestly, "is that my employees really believe in what they're doing. Also, there are a lot of brilliant, long-haired people...
...lames Lardner '69 will answer questions about being a policeman assist potential applicants and ward off hecklers at 7:30 Monday night. March 29, in the Adams House Junior Common Room...