Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Path wandering, I muse...
...that night, Enderby returns to England and is resurrected from an attempted suicide by a psychiatrist named Wapenshaw. Taking his mother's maiden name, Hogg, Enderby renounces poetry and assumes a new life as a bartender at Piggy's Sty. But try as he may, he cannot deny his muse, and she accompanies him on a desperate flight to Tangier after the murderer of a pop singer has pushed his smoking gun into bystander Enderby's hand. Disguised as an Arab beggar, Enderby plans a real crime--the murder of Rawliffe, a fellow poet who has stolen the plot...
...Brooklyn's depressed Bedford-Stuyvesant area, the Brooklyn Children's Museum took over a building that had formerly housed a pool hall and an auto showroom, last month set up a neighborhood branch called MUSE. Its exhibits invite participation; there are African drums to pound, African masks that can be worn, and a display of exotic headgear with a sign, "Please...
...afternoon one of the policemen was squatting down next to some bearded youth having a butt and rapping amiably while two others were getting a free lunch at the hot dog stand. Even when Mr. Moynihan (former editor of the Nickle Muse and not to be confused with Daniel Patrick) and a ladyfriend tried to levitate three uniformed officers by dancing barefoot around them in a little known American Indian ritual--they were tolerantly bemused...
...Like a muse-spurned poet thumbing through the rhyming dictionary, Lyndon Johnson diligently seeks out the sayings of his embattled predecessors. Last month his favorite prophet was Abraham Lincoln. This month's oracle is his lifelong idol and sometime mentor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his commentaries on the Viet Nam war last week, L.B.J. invoked F.D.R. to rally support for the cause...