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These older, reckles lyrics excited me because their contagion was evident; ears attuned to them gained appetites for "poeticism" and a lot of earnest, though not always men leapt up to supply them. Paul Simon (Garfunkel's partner) gives us lines freshly fallen silent shroud of snow," important, he gives us his own self-image: "A poet with a one-man band." "I have my bo--oks/And my po--e--try to protect me, he says. Mick Jagger write a 7-stress line Off My Cloud" and resuscitates the blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin...

Author: By Jeremy W. Helet, | Title: OFF THE RECORD | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...boot was good and low, near the left hand corner. With a powerful kick of his left leg, Childs leapt to his right on his side--not his stomach. He blocked the kick and gained possession of the ball before it reached the chalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Stop Exeter, 1-0, Score 4th Shutout Victory | 10/29/1964 | See Source »

...National Stadium trotted Yoshinori Sakai, a 19-year-old student who was born near Hiroshima just hours after the atomic bomb fell on the city. Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, Sakai bounded up a flight of 179 steps, thrust it into a cauldron of oil. Flames leapt up, and halfway around the world, in Manhattan and Mexico City, sports fans watched the dramatic moment on TV-relayed with marvelous clarity by the satellite Syncom III, orbiting 22,000 miles above the International Dateline. The XVIII Olympiad had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: For Gold, Silver & Bronze | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...fire leapt in the grate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems in the Summer School Poetry Contest | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...heard in New York. Soloist Ruggiero Ricci and the orchestra did not rehearse the full concerto together until the morning of the premiere. But when the musicians reached the final instrumental fantasy that ends the work, the composer was forgiven his wish to linger over his music. The players leapt to their feet with rare shouts of "Bravo!"-as much for the absent Ginastera as for Ricci's command of the intricate music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: On to Surrealism | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

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