Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that has become a giant "if." American Motors President William Luneburg poses these questions raised by the energy shortage: "Do you really think that the people out of the market because of unemployment can be counted on to return, and in what numbers, and when?" American Motors will undoubtedly hang on in the sales race, but its hopes for stopping the flow of red ink are once more in the hands of outside forces...
Those lines are a prophetic summary of the modern temper; small wonder that Wallace Stevens wrote of Baudelaire, "His stanzas hang like hives in hell." It is to be hoped that Alex de Jonge's book will help to dispel the poet's legend and resurrect his verse for a wider audience. But that hope, too, may be a drug. In which case, Baudelaire still wins, screaming over the gulf of a century: "Hypocrite lecteur-mon semblable -mon frère!" (Hypocrite reader-my double-my brother!). Melvin Maddocks
...powered flight has come a short way since then. In the late 19th century German Designer Otto Lilienthal built the kitelike device that led to modern-day hang gliders. Several other visionaries constructed pedal-powered planes that, in a very few cases, actually got off the ground. But as Haining shows, persistence is as enduring as failure. A contest held annually in Selsey...
February 23 is a good date to remember. That's when Maynard Ferguson and Ramsey Lewis (of Hang on Sloopy and In-Crowd fame, although he might deny it nowadays) move into the Music Hall for an 8 p.m. concert. I caught Ferguson at Brandy's Wharf a few years ago, and, sorry to say, he has lost a step or two since his days with Max Roach. The 50s were Fergie's hey-days. But his trumpet still has an inordinate amount of funk and the combination of Lewis and Ferguson make a viable Wednesday evening...
...months after Chou's death he was dismissed from his jobs and vilified in the press. When Hua accused him of the crime of counterrevolution, he may only barely have escaped the fate promised him by wall posters that appeared in Shanghai last April saying: HANG THE CULPRIT TENG...