Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...house does not take a break in the summer, but instead operates its own summer camp providing kids the opportunity to go on field trips to places such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts or the beach. Generally, children in the house stay for extended periods of times up to several years...
...that certain things, both in and out of nature, do not go together. Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon is always upsetting, no matter how often one looks at it, because we tend to keep certain textures and functions separate in our minds. Snow on a beach is not upsetting in the same way, but it startles the imagination. Where a child built a castle in the sand, he might make a snowman in winter. Or he could build a fort, two forts, two forts of perishable substances. Two beachheads...
...this direction because, no matter that I know there is no reason for bringing the snow and the sand together, still, one is always trying to connect disparate things. How should one drink tea out of an animal? What coherent whole can I make of snow on a beach...
...snowy beach I thought of an old friend who just got married to the wonderful woman with whom he had been living in perfect bohemian splendor for a dozen years, in a high Episcopalian ceremony so beautiful it took your breath away. And I thought of an old enemy and his new wife who are about to have their first child, and I wished them great happiness. I thought of other things I cannot name. Then I thought of my mother, 89, her once fine and witty mind assaulted by Alzheimer's but otherwise, and cruelly, in excellent health...
DIED. MARJORIE REYNOLDS, 75, actress known for portraying Bing Crosby's love interest in Holiday Inn and William Bendix's long-suffering wife in The Life of Riley TV series; in Manhattan Beach, California...