Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clean, up-to-date and as comfortable as most cabs in most cities. We still have a few Georgian relics . . . but they are vanishing fast. Some, no doubt, have gone to California where, for the next few years, they may serve to perpetuate a legend (fog, a barrel-organ and a 1921 Unic taxi honking its way through the murk). The remainder are finding their way, rather quickly, to the junkyard...
...year-old Chilean named Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, who calls himself simply "Matta." He lives with his wife and baby boy in a sunny apartment in Rome, paints only when he feels like it, and spends most of his leisure time grinding a rented hand organ on the streets. The mechanical music he grinds out gives Matta and his small boy assistant little profit, but Matta enjoys watching the faces of his listeners at the sidewalk cafes. Matta's latest show, opening next week in Manhattan, will be the first chance...
...criminals instead of punishing them, points to some statistics: in Denmark only 3.7% of voluntarily castrated sex criminals repeat their crimes as compared to 43% of the uncastrated. He considers the U.S. attitude a childish and hypocritical taboo. "In America," he says, "a surgeon can operate on any organ in the body, including the brain. But he may not operate on the testes. That is a hypocrisy which the mature society of Denmark refuses to accept." How will the Jorgensen case affect the future treatment of transvestites? In Denmark there will be other similar experiments. Two months ago, a closed...
Text by Lenin. Where Communists are concerned, it is sometimes instructive to listen to what they themselves say. Last week the Taegliche Rundschau, official organ of the Red army in Eastern Germany, recalled how Lenin had made peace with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk to give the Soviet land "a breathing space . . . to give it the chance of putting the economy in order, to take advantage of disputes within the imperialist camp...
Thomas only intermittently sits down to the work he can do best. To support his family, he has lectured on poetry, written movie scripts, scrounged, and read his or other poems from the lecture platform in a voice as booming and resourceful as a cathedral organ. But what he has written for himself is the envy of most other contemporary poets, a pleasure to anyone who can savor rich language. For all his Welsh thunder and soaring, Thomas knows very well what he is up to: "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love...