Word: onwardness
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...Lowell: not only does he give us new proof of his skill and originality in the form which he described in previous volume as imitation (not translation), this time from poems in Latin, Italian, and Spanish. He also demonstrates that the imaginative parturition of his mind is going steadily onward in the age of the pill. His new poems, and especially the five longer ones grouped under the title "Near the Ocean," show him as delightfully un-played out. Here is the first stanza of the collection (from "Waking Early Sunday Morning...
Because of the potential returns, all cattle breeders watch closely for just such "accidents." A completely unexpected one, for example, has turned up at Bueyeros, N. Mex., involving a six-year-old Hereford bull named Doctor Onward 211. The bull, it seems, has 14 ribs instead of the usual 13. More than that, it has passed on the mutation to many of its offspring. Of the 200 calves sired so far by Doctor Onward, 65 have been born with an extra rib-and thus an extra cut of valuable beef...
...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms (Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...
...hopes alive by beating Koch and teaming with Ashe to win the doubles, 7-5, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. But in his final singles match against Mandarino, the Menace lost his cool. Visibly rattled by noisy spectators, who chanted "Brasil! Bra-sil!" from the third set onward, he collapsed completely in the fifth set and lost 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, giving Brazil a 3-2 victory...
...signs of backlash. "Socklessness is a cultural leftover," fumes one Princetonian. Sock sales are even rising in some areas. Still, as the first snowstorms swirled across the Midwest last week the purists were standing fast. "If I could get a pair of lined desert boots," said one, thinking onward in Wisconsin, "maybe I could get by all year without socks...