Word: kite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a kite without a tail...
...community that can work together to transform their common environment into an arena in which to celebrate the rites of spring. They will meet and mingle throughout the Square and the University in a 14-day orgy of opera and auctions, ballet and children's workshops, drama and kite-flying contests, cabaret and Festival sales at the Coop. The brick walls around Harvard Yard may come tumbling down to the vibrations of a rock concert, and colorful banners may break the drab facades of many a store-front--music and merry-making might even wreak havoc with the traditional apathy...
...that it threatened to spread its energy and attentions too thin. That's when current Harvard Square Arts Festival coordinator Kristen Wainwright appeared on the scene--"a godsend," Bruce calls her--to help organize the community side of the Festival. With the experience of coordinating the 1971 Great Boston Kite Festival and serving as assistant director of the Children's Museum Visitor Center last year, Kristen is cut out for her present crusade...
...broke, we ran, we scattered on the face of our favorite hill like birds or like children, and because I was last in line, lowest figure in that bright pattern, and was holding back as usual (tall of the kite, conscience and consciousness of our little group), I found myself generalizing the visceral experience of the moment itself, found myself thinking that our days were idyls, our nights dreams, our mornings slow-starting songs of love...
...Manned kites are maneuvered by changing their center of gravity. The pilot sits in a swing seat near the center of the kite, holds a handle bar and shifts his weight, thus controlling the attitude and direction of the kite. Although it sounds simple, flying the contraptions is, as Kilbourne says, "no game for kids." In November, two kiters were killed. One, a Los Angeles beginner, died when he crashed during an auto tow. The second, a friend of Kilbourne's, plummeted 200 ft. straight down when his auto towline snapped...