Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Editorially, Carter's message was generally praised. The Boston Globe found it a "powerful presidential event, moving in its simplicity and significant in its reiteration of his goals." To the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the chat "came across like a cup-of-coffee conversation at the corner drugstore, instead of a discussion at the club." The New York Times, however, found "something troubling about a President's unique and unconstrained access to instruments of mass persuasion" and fretted that "Carter's hold on public opinion will be formidable...
...family were released last week to mark the date. The main festivities, however, will take place in June because, explains a palace spokesman, "February is no time to conduct a celebration." The summer jubilee events will include parades, river pageants, bonfires and visits by the Queen to nearly every corner of the British Isles. The British Tourist Authority has issued a 32-page booklet listing scores of 25th-anniversary events before and after the national thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral on June 7. Even London's transit authority is getting into the spirit: a fleet...
...spent the night pumping raw sewage out of our flooded City basement, while my weather-wise buddies drank themselves into a coma to the pleasant accompaniment of a noisy but relatively subdued gale. The revelry wore on late into the night: one well-prepared inebriate fell asleep in a corner wearing flippers, a snorkel and a life preserver, while his brother wandered outside singing Hindu praises to the 60 mile-an-hour gusts still whipping through the town. Most were still snoring peacefully when I returned the next afternoon, cursing every weatherman who had ever picked up a satellite photograph...
Scrunched in the bottom left hand corner of page 8 of the catalogue is this curious little premium: Would you like to be cox of the HARVARD CREW for an hour at a time to be arranged with Coach Parker? $150 Who, disguised as a mild-mannered crew coach, disrobes backstage at Symphony each Saturday evening to reveal a stiff white collar caked with stale rosin from last weekend's manic rendition of Bruckner's eighth? Seems just about everyone is in on the adventure. And who could resist? With the opportunity to test your skills in the stern...
...that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner, you've destroyed it everywhere in the world. --C.P. Cavafy...