Word: dank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monk's best showcase has always been a cafe on Manhattan's Lower East Side called the Five Spot, where he ended a highly successful seven-month engagement in January. The ambiance of the Five Spot is perfect for Monk's mood?dark, a little dank, smoke-soaked and blue. Night after night, Monk would play his compositions?the same tunes over and over again, with what appeared to be continuing fascination with all that they have...
...life. T. S. Eliot once said that to think of Dryden dying was like thinking of an empire falling. To see Dylan Thomas dying on the stage is like watching a once raging fire being extinguished. Even the alcoholic cause of death, a "wet brain," chillingly suggests the dank dark extinction of the light of the mind...
...anticipated it all. It will be a long hard battle, we had told ourselves. But in the dank, filthy, crowded (on the Negro side, fourteen and sixteen people in cells made for four) Albany jail, the struggle to stay merely human had obscured the social battle. Once free, a sense of the complete futility of our suffering settled down upon us like a heavy, enervating...
...Comforts. Meantime, the boys settled down in the embassy's dank cellar. To keep from getting on each other's nerves, they have partitioned it into two separate living quarters, installed a makeshift bathroom and two kitchenettes with refrigerators, rewired the lighting, painted the walls, added furniture, even acquired television sets. They do calisthenics to keep in shape, and to while away the days, they paint, write letters and read (translations of Sherwood Anderson, Rousseau, Hemingway). The Paraguayan ambassador gives them money for food and clothes; Juan picks up a little extra from a flower shop investment down...
...nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among the seminude supporters sweating it out with Big Jim were Merchant Bernard F. Gimbel, 78, and onetime Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney, 66, who read a poem-presumably in dank verse-titled Ode to a Bouncing Biltmore Bath Baby...