Word: homesickness
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...inwards, so far, far inside. He brought it all back home to himself, back into the smoke rings of his mind. The wind? The sea? Call it the unconscious. "I'm ready for to fade into my own parade." A pipeline laid deep to private magic swirling ships, subterranean homesick blues, dreams. to 115, Desolation Row, flickering vision lights of Johanna, Memphis mobile mind traps and all those psychic lowlands where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes...
...islander of Chinese-Portuguese-German-Dutch ancestry, Don grew up on the other side of the mountains from Honolulu in Kaneohe, where his parents ran a neon cocktail lounge called Honey's. A top high school athlete, he won a scholarship to Springfield (Mass.) College. But after a homesick year, he finished up at the University of Hawaii (sociology), then spent five years as an Air Force pilot. "When I realized I'd never get to be a general," he says, "I resigned my commission and came home to run Honey's. Business was so bad that...
...encouragement. His chronic fault was that he was a wastrel-and not only in his constant pursuit of a new bed or bottle. He was recklessly profligate in everything. Some of these letters about relatively unimportant matters contain some of his best prose. Thus, in a lyrical homesick reply to Poet Margaret Taylor (after she had written him about a house he might rent in Wales): "The room, the velvet, padded room upstairs where poems are waiting like people one has always loved but never met, and O to sit there, lost, alone in the universe, at home, at last...
Unless the American weightmen grow homesick or the sprinters get cold feet, Harvard-Yale should win by a margin of at least 13-5. Harvard-Yale Squad 100: Andersen (H), Robinson (Y) 220: Young (Y), Jewett (H) 440: Young (Y), Hobbs (Y) 880: Colburn (H), Burns (H) Mile: Shaw (H), Bittner (Y) 2-Mile: Baker (H), Mardin (H) 120 Hurdles: Moore (Y), Evans (Y) 440 Hurdles: Haggerty (H), Rony (Y) Shot Put: Greenlee (Y), Benka (H) Discus: Redendal (H), Wilson (H) Javelin: Berson (H), Champi (H) Hammer: Wilson (H), Ajootian (H) Pole Vault: Schoonover (H), Brady (Y) High Jump: Evans...
...mother the boys," Mrs. Phillips admits. "A few freshmen get homesick and come in with some trumped up excuse just to be mothered. I always tell them not to let their PT's go until the last minute...