Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of a group out of On The Waterfront, I found an assemblege more familiar, the staff of the Harvard Law Review. For every dirty sweatshirt and leather jacket there were at least two tweed sport coats...
...rain suit gives him the appearance of a fire hydrant. He is standing in the doorway of the deer-checking station at Clinton, N.J., watching a cold rain that has fallen intermittently throughout the day. As a pickup truck driven by a man in a bright orange cap and jacket pulls up to the station, he puts down his soft-drink can, slips on a pair of heavy rubber gloves and steps out into the wet to watch while the team of state employees swing into action. The routine, already practiced a hundred times since sunup, is simple, though...
...cosmos-and then realizes that he has forgotten his watch. Timeless, he has lost his place in history. A girl's black bell-bottomed trousers "flare out as shadow would flare out/ If the source of light/ Were centered in her belly." The poet moves in his leather jacket, "a cow's hide stuffed with soul." In "War" he compresses the century's anguish to four barbed-wire lines...
...entrance foyer, there is a prominent reminder that men should be "properly attired in necktie and jacket at all times," and women should limit their wardrobe to "dresses, pant suits or skirt suits...
...coffee table is The Herons of the World by James Hancock and Hugh Elliott (Harper & Row; 304 pages; $65). The authors have limited their choice of long-legged wading birds to a single family, the Ardeidae, which comprises some 61 species. The Snowy Egret graces the dust jacket, wearing the plumes, or aigrettes, that caused a heedless millinery trade to slaughter it to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s. But, as Emily Dickinson pointed out, hope is a thing with feathers, and today the protected Snowy has become a common sight-as well as a hopeful symbol...