Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serving out time on a rock-pile island outpost. As their 25th anniversary approaches, they have perfected the purest hatred for each other. Like the most passionately obsessed lovers, they live in a universe where nobody else exists. The only other character in the play, the wife's cousin, who introduced them, serves merely as a catalyst to their anti-chemistry...
...began forcefully, and later drifted to the ethereal with "Holes in the Sky," a 32-bar rendition of a poem by Louis NacNiece. The next four songs formed a cycle beginning with the straightforward harmonic piece, "Velvet Sportcoat," followed by "Ode to the Apocalypse" and its fast-paced thematic cousin, "Ark Tangents," whose music dances upon Daniel Dern's surrela lyrics...
...evening I arrived there, we drank ale out of large goblets and I watched Harriet light the kerosene lamps. I tried to picture the upper middle class high school cheerleader my cousin had married. I remembered his spacious Coral Gables house with its electronic gadgetry and heated swimming pool and compared it to the room I sat in, scented with burning wood and plump pork chops, sizzling in the old-fashioned black oven. The small wooden farm house had neither electricity nor running water. One room served as the living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. A ladder...
...thoughts with the lives these people are leading. A newspaper article, glued in the scrap book, called them "modern-day pioneers" --a condescending label that nonetheless contains an element of truth. When I left the house, I crossed the stream, walking over to the barn in search of a cousin. There I met Bessie, who kindly permited me, an awkward novice, to milk her. After the ceremony was over, I washed up in the fresh stream water heated on the stove, and drove into the town to meet Annie...
Building a national sense of urgency about the energy situation will take considerable powers of persuasion ? but then, Jimmy Carter seems as adept at using the bully pulpit of the presidency to persuade people as anyone since Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin Franklin. Carter seems almost to relish the coming combat. As he said last week, he intends to "convince the American people of the truth, using whatever means that I have at my command." Added Carter: "I believe that when they see the truth, they will cooperate in trying to cut down the waste of energy." This...