Word: hatches
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...accuracy) be termed entirely serious, John C. Holden's Memento Mori is the most substantial. Despite a not entirely satisfactory central metaphor ("My life's a sheet of paber filled with holes./People, punched away by antic death...") and some few rough spots, Memento Mori, which won the Hatch Prize this year, is a fine piece. Mr. Holden succeeds in encasing a particularly unwieldly sentiment in a tight and carefully plotted structure. The skillful shifting of the rhyme scheme, and its complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden's ideas; and the entire poem (to commit...
Saving Usefulness. In Peking, Communist officials say casually: "We can take Hong Kong any time. But for the moment we do not think it necessary." Why not? The colony is not only unashamedly capitalistic; it is also an escape hatch for thousands fleeing Red oppression on the mainland. Entire fleets of fishing junks have arrived at Hong Kong with their crews and families. Some desperate men have swum to safety; others escape by being packed like sardines under the floorboards of coastal ships...
...glossy production (Pandro S. Berman), slick direction (Daniel Mann), solid but stolid performances, and a script (Charles Schnee and John Michael Hayes) that reads as though it had been copied off a washroom wall. Heroine to hero, with a broad wink, as she glides seductively down the hatch of his sailboat: "You can-uh-drop anchor any time." Motel proprietor to hero, who betrays a certain anxiety to get to bed with heroine: "Yeah, yeah. Man's gotta get his rest-an' he's gotta get it regular. Ha-ha!" Haha...
Although Terry Bartolet did some good passing and Ravenel sparked a last minute drive into the scoring column, that was just about it for the Crimson. Yale intercepted two more passes, including a magnificent defensive play by Muller on a Bartolet toss for Hank Hatch. Hatch was behind his man, and the pass was over the Eli halfback's head, but Muller saved almost sure touchdown with a perfectly timed leap...
...took the varsity just nine plays to get back its lead. Terry Bartolet fooled everybody by calling a pass with third and one on the Brown 33, and hit end Bob Boyda with a beautiful throw for six points a minute and a half before intermission. Hatch failed on the try for two points...