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To vote at the town meeting in Huntington, one needs only to have paid the $1 poll tax. Of the 519 citizens eligible to cast ballots, about 130 braved a healthy snowfall to show up during the course of the 4½-hour meeting. At 10 a.m., Moderator Norman Cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: New England: Rites of March | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Cummings then came to the main item on the agenda: what Huntington should do with the $31,000 in revenue-sharing money it will get from the state and federal governments this year. After voting some lesser items, including $5,000 for a landfill project and $1,391 for ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: New England: Rites of March | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

(3 of 3) of illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perverbs and Snowballs | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Bonnie Anne DeLorme as Aunt Eller played her part like a wise old woman of 22 with a Western accent that seemed to be borrowed from a Eugene O'Neill seaplay. William Falk and Patricia Low as Will Parker and Ado Annie both sang and danced with comic talent and...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Waving Wheat Still Smells Sweet | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

ALONGSIDE XEROX COPIES of three much reworked manuscripts, James's Portrait of a Lady, Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, and two poems by E.E. Cummings, the new Writing Center in Hilles Library displays a Doonesbury cartoon on its bulletin board. In the cartoon Zonker Harris is banging away at...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Helping Johnny Write | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

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