Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the pictures are any better than usual. A Yearbook picture is normally worth about four of your average words, and 332 has all of the standard blurs, graininess, and inscrutable shadows...
...suppose a yearbook feels perpetually obligated to show the same dreary archways, people asleep in libraries, and sunsets-or-are-they-sunrises. But sit-ins, student power rallies, draft-card burnings, black activism, and New Hampshire were just a tad out of the ordinary this year, and one might almost expect a competent job of photojournalism. Forget...
Take the march on the Pentagon, which the Yearbook felt--no doubt correctly--had a profound effect on a lot of people around here. Remember the anger and frustration, the hippies stuffing flowers down the gun barrels that were pointed at them? The Yearbook brings it all back with some of the worst photos I have seen of the march. The only one that reveals some vague perception of the mood is an action shot that is unintelligibly blurred...
...simply amazing that the Yearbook could turn out neither readable nor thoughtful pieces this year. Why not a review of mixed-media productions here instead of that sorry shopping list of the props for Prince Erie? Why not something by a senior whose mind is blown on the draft instead of Neal Katz's duller recollections...
That is something to which Yearbook editors seem to have devoted precious little thought. Politics invading the academy? Revulsion towards the Establishment? The euphoria of McCarthy's "Kiddie Corps"? It's buried in there somewhere, if you read between the lines (which incidentally is made easier, and in some cases necessary, by sloppy proofreading and make...