Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience, and then departs? No one in the Kennedy entourage could identify him, security around the senator was very tight, and it was possible to identify everyone else on the platform. The man who, like the woman in the polka-dot dress has never been traced, had a pencil line moustache, as did a man who witnesses saw with Sirhan, also earlier that week...
...Hemingway's permission is required to see any of the material, except selected documents for which she gave a blanket release. These include the pencil manuscript of the draft conclusion of "A Farewell to Arms," and a typewritten draft with ink corrections and inserts, of the foreword to the Fitzgerald section of "A Moveable Feast...
That, of course, is an ambiguous compliment. If U.S. cartoonists are nonpareil, might it be because they never lack for objects of derision? Is it because shortages, recession, political scandals and assorted other follies provide a perpetual festival for anyone with a grease pencil and a sense of humor? Whatever the reasons, the editorial cartoon is one of America's liveliest and most permanent art forms. As Watergate proved, politics cannot eradicate or even tame journalism. As subsequent events have demonstrated, the reverse is also true. Them damn pictures are likely to enliven the next hundred years-and more...
What whales and their dolphin kin will not declare, this extraordinary book celebrates. It is a collection, really an orchestration, of appreciative views of the great creatures. Sober scientific articles and elegiac poems, naturalists' reports and scholars' musings, pencil drawings and underwater photographs jumble together, but all gently point to the possibility that whales are geniuses. The conclusion, of course, is unproved, yet most readers are likely to be convinced of its plausibility. Those with a mystical bent may even end up agreeing with Melville that if God ever returns to this planet, he would come...
...Sharing authority, or even listening to Humphrey, was not Johnson's notion of how things were supposed to work. Once he suggested that all Humphrey had to do was sit in his office and wait for orders, needing only a woman to answer the phone and a cedar pencil with an eraser...