Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, the whole assembly read "On Love" from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. The Epistle and Gospel were read by Jewish and Jesuit friends respectively...
...July, Spender had arrived in Prague to make contact with Czech hippies who misspelled peace slogans on the sidewalk: MOR I AQCUINT MY DOG LESS I LIK MY MAN. The kindly Spender could not resist subverting their English to read: "The better I know my dog the more I love...
...traveler from another planet by the rebel-rhetorical style, which he traces back to the beatniks: "It had the inspiration of some sustained fit of oaths from the mouth of a drunken Welshman." He even admires the way student-rebels combine "a passion for solitude with a love of being televised...
...French student-rebels as "romantic," West Germans as "theoretic" and Americans as "hysterical." Columbia's wildly improvising white students ("Let's take a hostage!") he accuses of being more neurotic than the blacks, who, he says, had limited but precise objectives. He chides students for being in love with revolution-"perpetual change, perpetual spontaneity"-for its own sake, as if it were a marvelous formula for releasing all the virtues, including love. On the other hand, Spender complains, given half a chance student-reb els go all brisk, like "frustrated bureaucrats." (As he observes: "The first thing they...
...capacity of women to love scoundrels," writes Orville Prescott, "is one of the abiding marvels of the world." Prescott may be right. In this compendium of scoundrels, he offers much evidence to prove his point. Galeazzo Sforza, for instance, was so cruel that he once had a courtier, fallen from favor, nailed up in a chest. Then, the story goes, he gleefully listened to the dying man's moans. Still, when assassins cut Sforza down at the door of a church, his wife, the Duchess Bona of Milan, mournfully wrote to Pope Sixtus IV, declaring that "after...