Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CITIES OF THE WORLD. NET embarks on a series of tours of five famous cities. First stop: "Mary McCarthy's Paris," where the novelist points out not only landmarks but also the problems of living and working in the City of Light...
...Crimson 35, light-footed Mickey Beard lofted a pretty 15-yard pass, and two jabs at right and left tackle put the Indians on the ten. Beard rolled around the right end and skipped into the end zone. The conversion tied...
...March 20 lecture on "Word Music," Borges proposed, "Poetry is not trying to take a set of logical coins and work them into magic. Rather, it is bringing words back to their original source. . . . Words began, in a sense, as magic" (at a time when "light" actually flashed, and "night" was darker than now), and later assumed abstract meanings: "Language did not come from libraries," but from fishermen, fields and dawn. "We know men sang before they talked. . . . We feel the last line of the first chapter of Finnegan's Wake could only have been written after centuries of literature...
...increases in the appropriation for the hospital were partially balanced by cuts in the money allocated to street and sewer repairs and to the Cambridge Recreation Department. Daniel J. Hayes Jr. attacked the cuts in the appropriation for sewers in light of the recent floods. Hayes was the only councilor who did not vote for the budget...
...Self-consciously they sip drinks and smoke cigarettes, all the while commenting obliquely on thunderstorms and ghosts, and on such standbys as truth and illusion. Every so often a long-winded narrator, sort of a supernatural Walt Disney, interrupts to fill those details too difficult to dramatize. Sound and light effects also butt in from time to time, but they prove merely idle threats of impending excitement. We get only ambiguity for suspense, a tape recorder for horror...