Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to pass a slower vehicle, strayed off the tarmac and hit a mine buried in the unpaved shoulder. The explosion blew the Jeep and its passengers clear across the road and into a field. No one even bothered to look at the bodies; like pedestrians avoiding a dog mess, the refugees just skirted the hole dug by the blast and continued on toward safety...
...connect the end of May 1970 with the quiet dog days in Cambridge that followed the lifting of the barrier of final exams, or even if you connect it with some summer refuge from the uneasy aimlessness that attended those Cambridge days, then your path has crossed Jeffrey Golden's. He has ridden the elevators up and down Holyoke Center, and he has walked quickly past the panhandlers who command the brickwalk bottleneck between the J. August storefront and the subway entrance on Mass. Ave. But in May 1970--wandering around an almost deserted Harvard and realizing that an organization...
...fraternity of hobos, who have worked out 40 or 50 graphic hints that they chalk up on fences or walls to guide those who come after them. The cat, for example, conveys the welcome news that a "kind lady lives here," while the canine image warns of a "vicious dog here." Other signs are a cross ("religious talk gets free meal"), two intersecting circles ("police here frown on hobos"), two wavy lines supported by a pillar and sheltering a small circle ("you can sleep in hayloft") and an indescribable squiggle that translates "food here if you work...
...pollution bill fell short of their idealistic standards, was puerile and misdirected. A subsequent study of New York's First National City Bank exhibited remarkable naivete about economic and financial complexities. Nader's often unbridled hyperbole is cause for legitimate rebuke. He once described the hot dog as the most dangerous unguided missile...
...plays fail through unbelievable incompetence. Many more fail (aesthetically if not commercially) through a casual neglect of the basic elements of theater. Drama needs plot, character and conflict. Drama needs language of resonance, tempo and style-something more than a faithful reproduction of what people say at college commencements, dog tracks and Sunday brunches. Above all, drama needs a strong personal vision, not that of the camera's eye, but of the mind's eye. Three recent entries on and Off Broadway have attracted a measure of critical and popular support; yet they are more instructive for their...