Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slips out of the northern neck of Manhattan and flies to the left of the live Sound, one swoops in time onto the Golden River, and dodging its shining beauty, now right, now left, one comes after a hundred miles of lake, hill, and mountain, in the Old Bay State. Then at the foot of high Mt. Everett one takes a solemn decision: left is sweet, old Sheffield; but pass it stolidly by and slip gently right into tiny South Egremont which always sleeps. Then wheel right again and come to the Egremont Plain and the House of the Black...
...weekend yet and 9 a.m. It rained on the bed last night. No covers on my feet. Slippers, slippers. Watch the razor, beards don't grow on trees, you know. Cold tile and a starched shirt. 15 collar, 151/2 neck. Crest, Breakfast of Champions. Lock the door. And the New York Times again. Headlines, skinny columns. Oh, I made the news today...
Dislocated Neck. Turning such fantasies into real history had to wait until Antonia had finished secondary school at the rather precocious age of 15, spent two years dabbling at novel writing and then read history at Oxford. After her marriage at 23-in a replica of Mary Stuart's first bridal headdress -she warmed up with some children's books and A History of Toys...
...child, she sat down in a little study partitioned off from her bedroom and in seven months wrote the 250,000-word manuscript. Drafts in progress were pinned to her husband's pillow at night with a note: "Mark an X where you get bored." Her neck became dislocated from the constant typing, but she remained so emotionally involved that she could weep while writing the execution scene. "I know it sounds affected, but after we had been together three years it seemed terrible that she had to go through all that...
...that Boston writers and broadcasters breathed down John Yovicsin's neck to get his words of wisdom on the quitting of the quarterback. the Harvard coach made an interesting statement which was heard on the late news that night. I'm not referring to his comment that quitting is likely to hurt Frank more than the team. Near the end of the long tape, Yovicsin said. "I know that Frank is 21 years old, but I think he's still too young to make such a big decision...