Word: oars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walk and mumble vague desires. He asks to be taken out in a boat. His wife, thinking it a moment of nostalgia for their honeymoon, joyfully rows him out from shore. But once on the lake, Antonio begins rocking the boat spasmodically, pathetically slapping at his wife with an oar, muttering all the while, "An American tragedy, An American tragedy." There is more here than a comic allusion to Dreiser's novel. Saura has finally defined the object of his attacks, for The Garden of Delights is indeed an American tragedy, the tragedy of a stagnating political consciousness confronted with...
Where do you go after 50 years in hockey? "Oh, I'm not through," Weiland said. "I'll keep oar [Orr?] in the game. I've been thinking of writing a book, about all the different people that I've known and a lot of funny little incidents." Then he leaned back and smiled. "Oh, they're all doing it these days," he said. "but I know at least I'd like to read...
Getting an Oar...
...will deny that, as Mr. Stowe says in your article "Stowing the Manly Oar" [Nov. 23], the world is not what it was when he was an undergraduate. There are abuses throughout our society, and the students are bellwethers. If one listens to them, one realizes how miserable they are and how desperately they want to be a part of an America that lives up to the principles upon which it was founded. Columbia students are too intelligent to accept a haircut and a hard hat as the salvation of our country...
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN Walter P. Reuther, LL.D., late president of the United Auto Workers. No speaker for those who toil in oar midst can replace him, for he was that rare human individual: a man who cares enough to make change not only possible but real...