Word: parked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Draft Beer, Not Boys." As the demonstration began, a confluence of contrasting groups flowed into the muddy Sheep Meadow of Manhattan's Central Park: anarchists under black flags; Vassar girls proving that they are, too, socially conscious; boys wearing beads and old Army jackets; girls in ponchos and scrapes, some with babies on their shoulders; Columbia University scholars in caps and gowns. On Central Park West, a parked bus bore the proud sign: "Even Smith"-meaning that college, too, was represented. There were Vietniks and Peaceniks, Trotskyites and potskyites, a contingent of 24 Sioux Indians from South Dakota...
...Nantucket: and "In Memory of Arthur Winslow" may be profitably compared with "Near the Ocean" if the reader has the inclination. Lowell seems most natural, lucid, and powerful when writing of Maine in the first two poems. The other three are of New York: "The Opposite House" and "Central Park" are brief, clear, and properly depressing. But the final poem, itself called "Near the Ocean," although it boasts an impressive technical display of straight rhymes, off-rhymes, and sight rhymes, and some extremely forceful language, is loosely constructed and lacks the clarity of the other pieces. The police...
...such a coupling can be made, but equally sure that it should be made in a suggestive way that remains open to modification. There are certain parallels between Juvenal-Lowell on Rome and Lowell on New York, for example. Consider the lines "Behind each bush perhaps a knife" ("Central Park") and "If you take a walk at night/ carry a little silver, be prepared/ to think each shadow hides a knife or spar" ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"). The more significant parallels with Juvenal, however, lie in the Maine poems, where the wish "to break loose" is in profound tension...
Meanwhile, a new breed, a much more solemn breed had begun to arrive in the park. Many had travelled all night in the buses that pulled up along the west side of Central Park. There were hundreds of buses and they came from Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta, from all over the East...
...spite of the internal strife and external harrassment, the coalition held together without a single defection, and when King, Spock, McKissick, Dellinger, Bevel, and the other principals led the march out of Central Park toward the U.N. shortly after 12 noon, they had a lot of people behind them...