Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). Orson Welles and Gregory Peck in Moby Dick...
John Weinstein of Winthrop won the individual title, beating Bill Thaxter of Dunster by fifty yards, although the race had been close over most of the two mile course. Jeff Peck of Lowell, who placed third in last year's meet again finished third to pace the winning Lowell team...
Lowell's total of 74 was barely enough to beat Adam' 79 points for the title which Kirkland had won last year. Sid Griest, Peck's teammate, ran past Paul Hoff of Adams for fourth place. Eliot squeaked by Winthrop for its third place finish...
Cummings came by his combined role as archromantic and Peck's bad boy of modern poetry naturally enough. Boyhood in Cambridge and Harvard ('15) gave him a New England intellectual's self-assurance and the Thoreauesque tradition of rebellious individualism. Just as Cummings began writing verse, Ezra Pound and the Imagists had turned old poetic practice upside down. Cummings was quick to follow them in tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques...
...Varda, a 34-year-old photographer whose first film (La Pointe Courte) established her as "the Founding Mother of the new French cinema," Cleo tells the story of 90 moribund minutes in the life of a featherbrained Parisian canary (Corinne Marchand) who has just begun to peck the plum of show-business success. As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer. Pale with dread, she visits a fortuneteller first and asks the old crone what is in the cards for her. Death is in the cards...