Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went next to the office of Phil Crane, and we were greeted by his legislative assistant. That seemed to be the arrangement. Few Congressmen were around, so you had to relay your feelings through assistants...
After the show the people on the speakers stage trashed the television. The whole scene was a little like something from Stephen Crane. The Night Before the Battle. Gathered around the campfire the troops heard speakers proclaim that this would be the last night of the old order, that the sunrise tomorrow would bring a new world. We sang "Turn, Turn, Turn." and went home, and the less cynical among us were moved...
Nine engine companies and four ladder trucks- representing all 22 of Cambridge's fire vehicles- responded to the general alarm. Firemen fought the fire throughout the day, but the flames were not extinguished until much of the building was demolished by a crane in the afternoon...
...gulp. "I just did," he says, and leaves his admirers gaping. James Dickey is everyone's notion of a poet: part Proteus, part Puck. People marvel at how much liquor he can hold, but he wonders why he can't drink as much as Hart Crane. Others are awestruck that he writes poems, criticism and fiction. He frets that he cannot paint...
...other words, had there been no blacks, certain creative tensions arising from the cross-purposes of whites and blacks would also not have existed. Not only would there have been no Faulkner; there would have been no Stephen Crane, who found certain basic themes of his writing in the Civil War. Thus, also, there would have been no Hemingway, who took Crane as a source and guide. Without the presence of Negro American style, our jokes, our tall tales, even our sports would be lacking in the sudden turns, the shocks, the swift changes of pace (all jazz-shaped) that...