Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oakland, public outcry quickly removed Di Suvero's Mother Peace from a city park. Perhaps it was able to find a home in Flushing Meadow, or maybe it got recycled, but at least it is not disrupting the natural serenity of our open spaces...
...things about the Jersey Turnpike that are worthwhile, in fact, are that it has a truck lane and a car lane (which must be some sort of ultimate triumph of highway social engineering) and that its rest stops are named after famous New Jersey residents Vince Lombardi in Hackensack Meadow, with Vince's football trophies in a display case in the lobby, Joyce Kilmer, Molly Pritcher, Walt Whitman...
...between the lines, Donleavy's diatribes manage to say more. In passing fancies he sees visions of grace, chivalry and order. Lords sit in their castles while peasants roam the meadow (with a moat between them). Butlers who know their place well serve perfectly prepared drinks to deserving pukka-sahib colonels. At such tenderly sardonic moments, Donleavy seems to reveal himself as an inverted romantic, profoundly sad beneath his disguise because he and the world are no better than they happen...
...sometimes flying as close as 3 ft. to the ground, he crossed the West German border, passed through neutral Austria and at 150 m.p.h. whipped across the Czech frontier near the Moldau reservoir, a sparsely populated wooded vacation area. As before, he was supposed to set down in a meadow, pick up his four passengers-East Germans like all the others-and within seconds be on his way home...
...thinness is something else I can't get used to. You take the subway out to Shea, too, all right, the elevated IRT jammed with happy kids and determined teenagers, but when you get there you're half a green mile from the Unisphere, at the end of Flushing Meadow Park. Fenway's just the opposite--all narrow streets and factories and warehouses. But the kids were on the field. They eluded the cops for four, five minutes--it was beautiful just to watch--and the angry cops chased them over into the stands and up toward the exit signs...