Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White Mouse in the Sky. The climb to star convinced him that he is most effective when "I talk right to the camera as if it were the one other single person who is here with me and is also interested in the world." An audience only distracts: "Did you ever try to kiss two girls at one time?" An obsessive amateur astronomer and encyclopedic hobbyist, he spent a recent afternoon trying to send a white mouse soaring into the sky from a New Hampshire field in a do-it-yourself two-stage rocket. Other interests over the years have...
...canyon of incomparable beauty. Red sandstone walls climb 5,300 ft. above 518 verdant acres. Waters cas cade down arching falls and sparkle in terraced pools coated with deposits of travertine. From this flow came the settlers' name. The Havasupai Indians- "people who live by the blue-green water" - occupy, as they have for ten centuries, the floor of Cataract Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park...
...biggest gainers of 1968 managed to climb at all in this year's first half. Their showing confirmed Wall Street's axiom that"go-go" funds can seldom put together two good years in a row because it is almost impossible consistently to pick stocks that will spectacularly outperform the mar ket. Last year's rich winners were those fund managers who correctly foresaw that the market would rally after President Johnson's renunciation. This year those managers failed to anticipate that the market would tumble after bankers raised the prime rate to 81/2...
Getting to know Wales also included a recent climb up Mount Snowdon (3,560 ft.), the highest Welsh peak. The Prince set a brisk pace. "He came up like a mountain goat," said his equerry. At the summit, his appearance touched off a mini-mob scene. As one girl aimed her camera, Charles gently informed her: "My dear, your [lens] cap is on." Spotting an American reporter, he asked: "You mean to say you've come all the way from the U.S. just to climb Snowdon?" Reporter: "It was just for you, sir," adding that the investiture had something...
Cortazar displays his own exotic humor best in a section entitled "The Instruction Manual." As if briefing a group of anthropologists from Uranus, he details precise ways to cry, sing, climb stairs and comb hair: "There's something like a bone wing from which extends a series of parallels, and the comb isn't the bone but the gaps which penetrate space." Cortazar's ability to present common objects from strange perspectives, as if he had just invented them, makes him a writer whose work stimulates a sense of rare expectation...