Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Past," Kazin is on his own, his native grounds--and, although he has had the hutzpa to reprint the preface from the Riverside paper-back edition of Moby Dick (the edition with all those foolish notes), he has good, sometimes brillant things to say about Thoreau, Stephen Crane and John Jay Chapman, among others. In a later section of the book, he gets into his real meat, the turn-of-the-century naturalists and the generation of the '20's and '30's. Here he is at his best, soundly rebutting silly Lionel Trilling
...wells went on writing his pale, successful novels and his unsuccessful plays (although George Bernard Shaw saw promise in them), urged people to read Zola and Tolstoy, Frank Norris and Stephen Crane, and wrote an appreciation of Mark Twain that is a good deal better than the piece Twain wrote about him. At the end, when the bright young men he had encouraged had gone far beyond him. he endured patiently the cutting down of his statues. But his eclipse was only temporary. Eventually he came to be acknowledged a great man of letters, if not a great author...
...Crane's Beach on the North Shore is only minutes from Harvard sq. The many fine beach areas in the Cape Cod region are within an hour's driving time from Cambridge...
...arrangement of the score, trusting to his band's ingenuity to carry it over the tough spots. Ingenuity, it turned out, was not enough. Because Clarinetist Goodman insisted on tootling from the center of the stage, the piano blocked him from Janis' view, forcing the pianist to crane sideways. To make matters worse, most of the time Benny neglected to conduct; Janis was kept busy nodding cues to the band. The performance was studded with sour notes and awkward pauses...
...junkyards to reduce dead jalopies to manageable cubes of crushed metal for shipment to steel mills to be melted down. Victims are taken for a ride in the good old-fashioned way. The car is then driven to a cooperating junkyard with the cadaver in its baggage compartment. A crane lifts the car into the steel-lined pit of the hydraulic press, where it takes just 90 seconds to reduce a 1962 Cadillac to a cube 36 in. high, 24 in. long and 24 in. wide. The result is then cleaned, coated with a metal preservative, and shipped...