Word: inventiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviewer into a few unskillful New Yorkerisms ("The Island wanted more coffee"..."As a matter of fact, the Island has been to Iceland"); (and the mountain to Muhammed?). Despite Miss Travers' sweet disarming mysticism, which occasionally peeps out from behind the Mary Poppins syndrome ("One doesn't invent anything, you see; ideas are dredged up from goodness knows where--they're there abiding, lying in wait..."), there are a few gems, among them her recollections of the Irish poet A.E. (George Russell) ("He took me under his wing and licked me into shape as a mother cat her kitten...
...elaborate, cursive script, in which the occasional images are understandable while the words are illegible. "Words are like vitamin pills," he explains. "We swallow them and think we have got something valuable inside us. But we don't. When we look at a drawing, we must hunt and invent our own meaning...
...wiser. "Once you see that language permeates the world," says Morris Kaplan, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale, "all the problems you had with the world come back." Strawson agrees that "the insatiable appetite of philosphers for generality has reasserted itself." In,other words, the philosophers are beginning to re-invent philosophy...
Maria! dusts off a sliver of plot about a team of carnival song-and-dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria...
...really good ballplayer on the team was Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby. The club was $175,000 in debt; there was no money for a training trip that spring, not even enough for new uniforms-let alone for buying players on the open market. Rickey's answer was to invent the farm system, gaining control of minor-league clubs, using them as training schools for future stars. At first rival big-league bosses hooted at the idea-but they changed their tune when the Cardinal organization produced Rickey's famed "Gashouse Gang" managed by Frankie Frisch and featuring Dizzy...