Word: netful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CITIES OF THE WORLD. NET embarks on a series of tours of five famous cities. First stop: "Mary McCarthy's Paris," where the novelist points out not only landmarks but also the problems of living and working in the City of Light...
...guided missive to the Berkshire Eagle from his home town of Stockbridge, Mass. "I am offering in all sobriety a reward of $25,000," he wrote, "to anyone who devises and successfully executes a plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson's payoff record: he volunteered to play honky-tonk piano at a local fund-raising benefit for Senator Eugene McCarthy-and reneged the moment the McCarthyites tried to take...
...scored six goals in the first two periods to put the game on ice. Brian Cornell scored three of them--in the second period. Boston College finally got on the scoreboard at 5:52 in the last period when Whitey Allen hit from 25 feet in front of the net...
Frontier Madness. Fiedler makes an interesting distinction between nostalgic evocations of a West long since tamed in a net of superhighways, and the truer, mythological West of rebirth and renewal that is always in the future. "The real opposite of nostalgic," he says, "is psychedelic, the reverse of remembering is hallucinating, which means that, insofar as the New Western is truly New, it, too, must be psychedelic." So the Red Man reappears, bearing his gifts of marijuana and peyote that threaten 20th century values in much the same way as the white man's whisky threatened the Indian...