Word: glades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time was when a Chaucer, a Milton or a Goethe could feel just as much at home at a civil servant's desk as in a poet's leafy glade. No more. Washington, no less than other world capitals, is a city of prose-in triplicate, quadruplicate, or burnt brown Thermo-Fax. In such surroundings, Katie Louchheim stands out as clearly as a lyric line, for she is one of the last survivors of a lost race: the poet-bureaucrat or bureaucrat-poet. Which comes first is hard to say, for last week, just a few days after...
This summer, in such diverse settings as a Universalist church on Cape Cod, a 16th century hacienda near Taxco, Mexico, and a leafy glade on the shores of California's Lake Arrowhead, hundreds of amateur U.S. musicians are taking part in a series of workshops. Their subject: advanced noodling. Their instrument: the recorder, a kind of glorified penny whistle with a pedigree...
...author of this clean-cut gem of a first novel clearly was motivated by prudence. "Helen Hudson" displays such knowledge of faculty politics and makes the ambitions and jealousies of her professors and their wives so sadly true that it is obvious she occupies, or once occupied, her own glade in the groves of academe...
...most eagerly awaited film, Luchine Visconti's Sandra, arrived fresh from a victory at Venice. The audience's hopes were raised even higher during the beautiful opening sequence, where Visconti mounts his camera on the back of a speeding Ferrari and then zooms the lens into a nearby glade to capture a flock of wheeling birds...
Many would-be campers are deterred by the hazards of picking a site, finding drinkable water, sleeping on rib-gouging ground-not to mention the horrors of pitching a tent in a wind. Nowadays, however, the compleat camper can drive right up to the lakeside or forest glade where he plans to spend the night and immediately cook supper, take a shower and bunk down, regardless of the terrain or weather...