Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barrio called Mosquitos on the south coast, there is little movement or noise on the dirt streets under a baking midday sun. The sugar season has just begun, so the men lucky enough to have jobs are swinging machetes in the canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house...
...succeed within the prevailing value system. There was Steven Rosenfeld, the stellar pre-med whose drive carried him to the point of forging medical school applications that would have been glowing anyway. There are Spiro and Monette Pavlovich, who forged transcripts in order to stay on the prestige mill of Harvard graduate schools. These people are extremes, but they attracted, in this day and age, an inordinate amount of attention because they represented extensions, past the indistinct borders of logic, of impulses that are widely present in Harvard students. They are embodiments of the primacy of process and systems...
...when he sleeps at all, that is. Most nights are a series of fitful catnaps, often with spells at the typewriter in between. At the family's 600-acre dairy farm in upstate New York, there is an old schoolhouse on the property that Moynihan uses as his word-mill whenever he has a chance to leave his U.N. life behind. The farming is done by a local tenant who pays Moynihan $350 and 23 gallons of maple syrup a year for the use of the land. At present, Landlord Moynihan is writing the introduction for a volume of collected...
Skipping over some of the major reading periods in literature, the hellish experience described by Dante, Blake's The Book of Thel, Shelley's Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and John Stuart Mill's autobiographical A Crisis in My Mental History, I should like to focus on a particularly important work in the canon of reading period. This is a famous Anglo-Saxon riddle...
...Horse. A drama set in a waterfront gin mill, presented by the Parish Players of Vermont at the People's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge St. In Inman Square, through January 25. Performances Thursday through Sunday...