Word: equinoxes
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Solstice & Equinox. Standing among the giant slabs, Hawkins was struck by the way the early architects had limited his exterior view. Looking through one of the narrow trilithons and an aligned archway in the outer ring, he writes, "I felt that my field of observation was being tightly controlled, as by sighting instruments, so that I couldn't avoid seeing something." What the ancients were directing his attention to, Hawkins became convinced, was the rising and setting of celestial bodies, perhaps the sun or certain stars or planets. Returning to the U.S. with accurate charts of Stonehenge, he plotted...
...Hughes for $25 million-and formed RKO General, a subsidiary that accounted for about 20% of General's 1964 profits of $37 million. Today RKO General owns seven radio and five TV stations, a community antenna television company, 123 movie theaters, Pittsburgh Outdoor Advertising, and the 400-room Equinox House in Manchester...
COLTRANE'S SOUND (Atlantic) is free, air borne and intense; his tenor sax describes a flashing, looping melodic maze in his composition called Liberia, pokes broodingly into small, dark corners in Equinox, has the jitters in Satellite. The fine drum mer Elvin Jones explodes some free-style fireworks...
Spring seems to be arriving at last; at least the snow has turned to rain in Cambridge, and the frozen ground has oozed into the perennial mud. It is not too early to start planning for the vernal equinox...
...poems are therefore better left to speak for themselves. Arthur Freeman's work is easier to discuss, for it is much better. His humorous poems are truly funny rather than merely ingenious, the kind of humor at which we laugh without thinking first. His more serious offering, "Storm in Equinox," is one of the best things to come out of South Street of late. Gabrielle Ladd, a Wellesley senior, is the third poet, although her relationship to the Advocate is elusive...