Word: parks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are lots of poems, fat ones and skinny. I like Kenneth Koch's best. His are fat. He writes like a great bull, not afraid of going anywhere or being anything. The nicest poem is The Young Park. "Hands picked/On her blossoms./The young park was sad." In the park things become animals, and animals people, and the young park becomes a person, Young Park. Even the automobile club gets mislocated in the zoo. All because the poet becomes the park, and believes in it. "At night, when everything is yellow and green,/You too can come alive/If...
...report, the company warned that "no miracle can overnight create sufficient capacity for every person wishing to park at the University. Steps are being taken to reach this goal, but until it is reached, the available space must be rationed or allocated, based on true need...
...World War II headquarters of the Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces in Bushey Park, England-it is now a schoolroom-a plaque was unveiled one day last week that read: "A great man passed this way in defense of freedom. He showed the capacity for making great nations march together more truly united than ever before." Elsewhere in Britain, however, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his countrymen were having an unusually rough time of it. The stately Times feared "a Britain united in anti-Americanism-and there is a growing danger of this . . ." The less stately Sunday Times talked...
...Hyde Park Gate home in London, Sir Winston Churchill, physically feeble and mentally overwhelming, turned 82, presided over a small family party that included an assault on a spectacular cake topped off with 82 candles shaped in Sir Winston's "V" for victory trademark. When photographers outside clamored for him, Churchill came to a window with wife Clementine and gap-toothed grandchild Arabella. 7, daughter of Randolph. After posing indoors for other lensmen, Churchill heard a game try at felicitation from one. "Sir Winston," called the photographer, "I hope to take your picture on your hundredth birthday...
...many similar gimmicks are in operation, but during the past few years they have spread so fast as to become almost a characteristic feature of U.S. religion. In the New York City area there are at least three other installations, in New England five. Detroit's suburban Highland Park Presbyterian Church (one of four in Michigan) lists its "Lifeline" phone number in the newspapers, and when Minister Robert C. Young, 36, hears from his office the low buzz of a new call, he makes a short, silent prayer for the caller...