Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weathered orange tiles. Past the Great Hall of the People and the Hotel of Nationalities. Opposite the guesthouse is a terrace for fishing. The lake is frozen now, but a small pavilion with a two-tiered green-tiled roof juts above the ice. It is the classic moon-viewing site for composing poems, sipping wine, watching the willows on the shoreline and contemplating nature...
...lips. For the Americans there, it is a moving moment. There is the suspicion that the Chinese like it too. But who really knows? The night and the silence swallow everybody again. The visitors go back to their hotels in buses, passing shadowy figures on bicycles, a thin moon shining through the cold. Nixon goes off somewhere and that immense silence closes in again...
...last night in town the statue of old Mao is bathed in warm light up on the Great Hall of the People. Above is a half-moon in a clear sky. Richard Nixon is giving a banquet in honor of the Chinese, and the guests come quietly along. So do the Americans. Everybody heads for the same cavernous banquet hall where they had been on the first night of the visit. Tired Americans, tired Chinese. But still smiling, still wondering. The Great Hall would pass in Chicago if it didn't have the double row of lights...
...there were so many buildings. Lord, I never knew what a street was, not really, not streets like we have up here, not miles and miles of them," says a black sharecropper from Mississippi. And a little white girl from Kentucky marvels at street lights: "I wonder how the moon feels? If I were the moon, I'd make a face at all the lamps on the streets...
Inside the half-moon of the Garden's 5000 seat capacity Felt Forum better described, perhaps, as a one ring circus, hip and not so hip students and New Yorkers hustled to their seats. Remarked one girl completely lost, "Are you kidding?-- I feel like I'm in a gymnasium." A subdued audience embodying the air of tranquil expectancy and guarded reverence typical of poetry readings this...