Word: capricorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, take off with his new car and a year's advance pay. Norman buys a mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into paying dearly for another thousand acres and a herd of Angora goats for the production of "Capricorn semisoft cheese," which goes sour before it can be sold. He is finally carted off to a Texas retreat for the mildly deranged. He might have written his poems in peace here, but mama, newly widowed, reappears to lead him off to a last encounter-with the only blond man in a town...
...business, count the costs before you act. The moon now in Capricorn suggests keeping practical values in mind. Tomorrow is rather too energetic for comfort, but that may be because everybody is on the move...
...theory that some star-minded dissident might be moved to try a coup on an astrologically auspicious day. In South Viet Nam everybody was indeed on the move, but where they were moving was no clearer than the zodiac. The U.S. was increasingly unhappy with President Ngo Dinh Diem (Capricorn), and after what the U.S. officially called his "brutal" crackdown on the Buddhists, Washington obviously could not string along with him as if nothing had happened...
...Lowell readings, which were inaugurated this year, will bring ten other writers to the House during the spring term. Adrienne Rich will read from her verse Feb. 26, and March 6, William Abrahams will read excerpts from his fourth novel, Children of Capricorn, recently published by Random House...
...Worlds in the medieval town north of Rome, was capped by a "Parade of the Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth was backstage with teasing comb at the ready...