Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tubular shape of the oboe could be called its neck. We had thought of expressing this by saying that the body of the oboe is its neck, but anticipated the manner in which it would have revealed a problem concerned with the naming of things: the danger of confusing those two portions of our anatomy, the body and the neck. I know the objection may be raised that nothing is less familiar to us than our own necks; to which I would reply that if we were to lose them, to have our necks somehow severed from our heads...
...being that if anyone were to respond identically to both these questions, it would show that they had failed to listen properly. Other reasons come to mind. I am holding an oboe in my hands. I think, "What does it remind me of?" It reminds me of a neck. Still, I am no longer happy with this evocation. Are you? Perhaps I have said too much, perhaps too little. Perhaps I have said nothing at all. If I have said too much, then the damage is done, and I shall be forced to go on talking. If too little, then...
Yablonski, who had started in the mines at age 15, once boasted that "Jock Yablonski can go anywhere in the coal fields." After he declared his insurgency, he began to fear for his safety. He was nearly paralyzed with a karate chop on the back of his neck during a campaign appearance in Illinois. "He was in danger from the very date the campaign started," said his son, Chip...
...changes reflect a period of contemplation, and a hard-earned equilibrium. Three of them ?Robertson, Manuel and Danko?have lately married and have small children born within months of one another. In 1966 the group drifted up to Woodstock, N.Y., to be with Dylan after he broke his neck in a motorcycle accident. As he recuperated, they all played music together informally. Three songs on the Big Pink album also resulted, most notably Dylan's own I Shall Be Released...