Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEANING forward from his chair, Jorge Luis Borges focuses his nearly sightless eyes somewhere above the Sanders Theater ceiling. If the word charismatic can describe a man talking about the art of poetry, it describes Borges delivering the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "this craft of verse." Borges creates a personalized version of the same subtle magic which translates the readers of his "fictions" into a dream-context without their perceiving the change...
...Bruins are looking forward to the Stanley Cup playoffs which begin for them on either April 4 or April 9 depending upon where they finish...
...strange-looking aircraft will wheel over Takhli Air Force Base in Thailand early this week, cock their delta-shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North...
...notwithstanding Wesker's pedestrian imagery, the play rates a Q.E.D. on its major proposition. The fact that it was written by a kitchen-sink realist like Wesker is added evidence that the generation of British playwrights that began by looking back in social anger is now looking forward in private anguish...
...Looking forward, onetime New Deal Brain-Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell gives a progress report on his 32nd effort to bring the U.S. Constitution up to date. Dubbed the "Refounding Father" by his colleagues, Tugwell spells out a citizen's responsibilities along with his rights, emphasizes the shift in society from "competition to mutuality...