Word: compartmental
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Former Harvard tutor Richard Tillinghast authored the last of the great poems, "Ascension Day: Waking on the Train." The narrative viewpoint is clouded, seemingly drifting between dream and drowsy waking. In the transitions, a county-fair balloon ascension becomes associated with an erection the narrator wakes up with: "The man...
The fire caught hundreds of the Oriskany's 3,400-man crew below deck. Worst hit was "officers' country" in the forecastle, where many men had not yet climbed out of their bunks. As the choking fumes billowed into their compartments, they tried to escape, only to be...
His short hairs are best ignored. His excursions into philosophy, all taken in Jean-Paul Sartre's second-class compartment, begin at the level of the college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion...
Conquering Hydrospace. In West Palm Beach, a privately developed 22-ft-long submersible is nearing completion for a planned dive in the early fall. Designed jointly by Perry Submarine Builders, Inc., and Ocean Pioneer Edwin Link, the PLC4 will be "flown" under water by means of helicopter-like propellers at...
Treasured Junk. Cornell's works were first shown in a New York gallery in 1932, exhibited with constructions by other artists under the general label "Toys for Adults." He has always used the visual vocabulary of surrealist collages: cut-up newspapers, pillboxes, corks, postage stamps, piston rings, things usually...