Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth Koch, 52, a bespectacled, bushy-haired poet and English professor at Columbia, has a peculiar knack of finding poets in unlikely places. In 1968, for example, he whisked into Manhattan's P.S. 61 and, before they could say "Charlie Brown," had sixth-graders versifying about their favorite heroes and fantasies. The result was Wishes, Lies and Dreams, an anthology of the students' poems and a how-to guide for teaching poetry to the young...
...Next day, at that diplomatic microcosm in Manhattan, the U.N., Carter got a reception that was correct, attentive, but short of enthusiastic. The delegates were keenly interested in hearing him outline his strongly held, highly moralistic view of U.S. foreign policy priorities, but they found only four occasions to applaud during his 25-minute address. While many diplomats welcomed Carter's straight talk on human rights and other matters, one Western envoy sounded a fairly widely heard caveat: "A splash of fresh air is good, but if you open your window too wide, a gale will blow through." Nevertheless...
...deprogramming, in which the convert to some strange-sounding, all-encompassing religion is subjected to threats and arguments until he gives up his new faith. After five days of this, Merylee pretended to accept Kelly's arguments, was released, got back to the Hare Krishna temple in Manhattan and charged Kelly and her mother with kidnaping...
Died. Antonino Rocca, 49, flamboyant wrestler who claimed that he knew "the secret of life" (good blood circulation) and would live to be 150; of a urinary tract infection; in Manhattan. Born in Italy, Rocca grew up in Argentina and became one of its most popular wrestlers. He moved to the U.S. in 1949, delighting millions of fans around the ring and on TV with his barefoot dropkick, in which he leaped into the air, pummeling his opponent with both feet...
Oliver's Story begins in June 1969, 18 months after the death of Oliver's wife Jenny. Oliver Barrett IV has turned his back on his proper Boston family and an impressive textile fortune, and sunk himself into the defense of civil liberties, a basement apartment in Manhattan-and gloom. He goes to parties and he sits. When friends introduce him to pretty girls, he glowers and storms away. Finally, jogging in Central Park, he sees Miss Right II, a beautiful blonde named Marcie Nash, who captures his fancy by running faster than he does. They have dinner...