Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cellar. Life is almost as nerve-racking for the 20 inhabitants of 125-acre Eiskeller, a farm community on the northwest tip of the city. Connected to West Berlin by a one-lane, 800-meter road, Eiskeller (Ice Cellar) belongs to the Spandau district in the British sector. The shoulderless roadway is so narrow that no gas or electric lines can be installed: though it is the coldest part of the city, petroleum for both light and heat must be trucked in. Nonresidents must travel the dirt road under British escort, because Vopos lurk just off the roadway in case...
...concern. On Monday night an atmospheric inversion settled over the city. The sky turned reddish-brown, as clouds of ash, soot, and foundry dust produced by the city's factories were trapped beneath. By Tuesday, the pollution level had risen to 771 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter of air, nearly four times the level considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...Brooklyn, Rudolf Wiesen, a store designer, caught the city of New York trying to reduce the time limit on the 10¢ parking meter in front of his office from two hours to one hour. After Wiesen reminded the city's traffic department about the freeze, the department agreed to reconvert other parking meters around the city to pre-Aug. 15 prices. > In Hopkinton, N.H., some 30,000 New Englanders flocked to a county fair over the Labor Day weekend. After visitors complained that this year's $2 admission charge, 50¢ more than last year's, was an unfair fair fare...
Home Parking Meters In Los Angeles a little red "expired" flag snaps into view on the executive's desk, warning the visiting salesman that his pitch time is over. Another red flag goes up in a Chicago teen-ager's room, warning her that she has tied up the family telephone long enough. In the guest bathroom of another Chicago home, the flag reminds a partygoer that others may be waiting. In each case the red metallic flag is enclosed in a device that looks suspiciously like a parking meter. Actually...
Many of the new imagists too, have forgotten Pound's espousal of the "musical phrase" (v. the metronome) as the basis of rhythm. Instead they have largely adopted the dicta laid down by Charles Olson, who presided over North Carolina's Black Mountain school from 1951-56. Meter was obsolete, and form along with it, Olson declared. Instead, the poem could be given an organic structure: "The line comes from the breath, from the breathing of the man who writes, at the moment he writes." This dictum resulted in a whole generation of poets breathily crouching over their...