Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banker York swung into a rocky lane leading to the highway, he saw a man standing beneath a roadside live oak tree. Then he saw the gun in the man's hand...
...nine-year-old John York as he scrambled from the car and five more hit his 67-year-old grandmother in the back as she got out and started to escape. In blind terror, 13-year-old Ann, the only York in the car still alive, pelted up the lane with lead cracking around her. Hit in the thigh, she managed to keep going until she reached a farmhouse where she sobbed out her story, and named the rifleman...
Highlighting the work of poets Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Jr., Ruth Stone, and Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
...audience in Drury Lane Theater, he explained: "I am taking no chances with not getting artistic unity where my favorite composer is concerned. . . . Bruno Walter once told me there were only two people who could play a Mozart concerto-and he was one of them. Wild horses won't drag the other name from me. . . . The combination of my wife and myself is one that cannot be duplicated in 24 hours." Quipped the London Star, in a cartoon next day: "I have got tickets for Sir Thomas Beecham's next speech. I hear he will also conduct some...
...Columbus, Ohio, Frank Lane, president of baseball's American Association, ruled that a baseball player can swear at an umpire if the profanity 1) is used in a casual manner, 2) is not heard in the stands, and 3) does not cause the ump to lose his self respect...