Word: conestogas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most intelligent participant in the complicated travesty of Gilmore's death. The writer has mobilized a shrewdness to match Gilmore's own punkish daring and jailhouse self-abnegation. Old Aquarius has silenced his bustling, manic, intrusive voice. His prose in this thousand-page trek is a Conestoga of American plain style: it is banal, idiomatic and somehow grainy, like the scenes in 1950s pornographic films in which the characters meet and part like neighborhood dogs, the men never taking their socks...
...sounding the same. "The multiplication of poets sort of leaves my mind blank," says Poet Karl Shapiro, former editor of Poetry. In many ways this collection of essays is a retrospective; editors like Robie Macauley, formerly of the Kenyan Review, fear that the little magazine is "rather like a Conestoga wagon in the day of the automobile...
...vehicle. The rolling residence, full or part time, may be a $330,000, 40-ft., custom-converted Greyhound bus or a third-hand '52 Flexible less than half that size and one-thirtieth as expensive. It can sport every domestic convenience or be almost as spartan as a Conestoga. But nearly all of those unwieldy looking crates on wheels are habitations, as legitimately and pridefully owned as any picket-fenced, split-level ranch. With one overriding difference: If you don't like the neighbors, the weather or the garbage collection, you can roll right out. If the parking...
Presidential trips are not the novelties they used to be, but they remain a particularly American spectacle. There are movement and excitement, new sights and sounds, the grace of the plane that carries the President. It is in its way a descendant of the Conestoga wagons and the elegant sailing clippers. There is, too, the open fascination with different people and customs that the touring Americans always bring along, a lasting heritage from immigrant ancestors...
...example, will the Pequot Indians return to the Niantic Indians the lands they stole in the early 17th century? Will the Pawnee return the lands they stole from the Sioux and Cheyenne? Will the Iroquois return all the land they stole from the Huron, the Tobacco, the Erie, the Conestoga and the Illinois...