Word: floats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, Tropic of Cancer is a soup, a whirlpool perhaps even a sewer. To make different order out of it is intensely difficult for the week-stomached, it is impossible. Characters and scenes float in and out of the with a wonderfully picaresque irregularity of Rabelaisian humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face...
...paintings and drawings now on show in Manhattan's Albert Landry Galleries are sharp and clear and natural, but taken as a whole they make sights that no one ever saw. One painting shows a huge rose filling an entire room. In another, loaves of French bread float by the window. In still another, a huge boulder, crowned by a castle, hovers over the sea: This sort of thing could be mere gimmickry, but in the hands of Belgium's Rene Magritte it rarely fails. "For me," he says, "art is the means of evoking mystery." His quiet...
From planes, Northrop made a short jump into recoverable Mach 2 target missiles for ack-ack training. The target drones, of which Northrop is the world's largest builder, float down to earth on parachutes after the shoot is finished-and they gave Northrop expertise in high-altitude landing systems. The eventual result: the Northrop-built recovery system for the Mercury capsule, including its 63-ft.-wide parachute, which brought Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom down from space...
Hoyt was the featured speaker at the Club's fall organization meeting, where George O'Day, Olympic yachtsman and a friend of Harvard sailing, also reported on the progress of plans for a new Club float on the Charles River Basin. O'Day, who may supply interclub dinghies for the Club's use on the basin float expressed optimism about the possibilities for completion of the project next spring or in fall '62. The Club has submitted plans for the construction which are still in the hands of the University and have yet to be approved by the City...
...midsummer Manhattan, when the humidity could float the Queen Mary up to the side entrance of the Waldorf, a Broadway production has to be exceedingly durable to survive, and, although the list of running plays has atrophied, summer visitors still have some good choices. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce...