Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kuttner gets violent at the thought of filling his magazine with either slick -- even New Yokerish -- Action or traditional poetry. "It's ludicrous to think of an undergraduate sitting down in 1966 to write a classical lyric." His own writing, both poetry and prose, is "thinkable, but not readable -- there is a majesty and grandeur in something that's in its crude, formative, germinal stages, where the reader can fill in the gaps." And then, characteristically, interrupting his own lecture to shriek. "Poetry is wonderful -- it's nonsense -- I love...
...manufacturers have managed to reduce the noise. The prospect worries the makers because modern compact machines are noisier than they used to be, and the engineers are not sure what to do about it. Noisier still are the so-called heat pumps, those outside installations housing large fans to fill the house with heated air in winter, cooled air in summer. Heat pumps recently installed at a housing development at Irvington, N.Y., so overheated nearby residents with their throbbing roar 'that the town banished devices developing more than 45 decibels as measured at the nearest property line...
...publishers' main effort to correct this has been to produce thin supplementary books that fill the gaps in Negro history, ranging back to the fairly rich empires of 8th century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...
...notion of a big night is a steak dinner and an early movie-followed by ten hours of sleep. His only extravagances are relatives and clothes. He sends money to the folks back home, runs up big phone bills calling them. The clothes are only partly for him. "I fill all my closets with suits," he says, "but me give a lot of them away to my friends...
...Work" will be written by students, for students, from a students point of view, and Margaret Gerlach, editor of the publication, "and will fill a real need in the field...