Word: lofting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miller, and Nin shouting confusedly at the dinner table; another describes the exhaustion of New York literary society, drunken parties, jazz. The endeavor to write almost seems to subside before the need to simply go on. Even though she was eventually driven to publish her own works in a loft before Edmund Wilson discovered Under a Glass Bell in 1944, Nin never failed to remind herself that "we exult in what we master and discover." The entries from January, 1942, relate the chore of handsetting and printing one's own books, and the triumph of attention, all amidst the background...
Surely one of the funniest one-acters I have ever seen, Noon is about a wide variety of people (a nymphomaniac, a homosexual, an uptight heterosexual-intellectual, and a middle-aged sado-masochist couple from Westchester) who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. They have all come to meet with a certain Dale (sex unknown) who seems to have answered each character's sleazy newspaper ad for sexual adventure...
session, she followed me to the loft where I slept and in the darkness I heard the blood-cry of her wings. One hour old, right on schedule, she extracted her photographer's model...
Solid fullback play brought Quincy its 2-1 victory over Lowell in soccer. Half-back Bob Rock scored first for Quincy on a loft shot from midfield that cleared the upreached hands of the Lowell goalie. Hammy Clark tied the score for Lowell before the half, but Rich Conkling provided the winning score in the third period...
...stoned. I really didn't know what drugs were all about then, but I took them and waited about two hours and I couldn't feel very much. Then I walked over to one of the school buildings and the same cat was up in a loft blowing grass. I didn't know what that was then either. I thought it was like heroin. I thought it was really bad. This chick who was a friend of his said, "Why don't you come up and smoke some?" So I went up there and started smoking...