Word: picnicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inge of, say, Picnic may be the level at which Jones hits at present. Like Inge, he has a paradoxically lyrical feeling for ordinariness-for hopes and disappointments on the banal scale of "a small frame house in a small framed town...
...Berkshires this summer. The most important thing going on there, as always, is the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood under the supervision of Seiji Ozawa, and the program for this summer looks particularly good. For $3.50, you can guarantee yourself a spot on the lawn for a picnic and listen to, on July 18 for example, Ozawa conduct an all-Haydn program. Access is easy--exit 1 on the Mass Pike, and buses from Boston...
...event begins at 6 p.m. with dance works by Toby Armour, founder of the Boston troupe, Jean Churchill, its current director, and New York avant-gardists Trisha Brown and James Waring; a play, "Gutta Dance", follows. A dinner break is promised (about an hour, long enough for a picnic in or a dash out), and so is rousing camaraderie...
...with the rednecks, and carousing to the strains of steel guitars and songs about truck driving and faithless wives and husbands. The hordes at Woodstock are only a misty memory now, but every year thousands still gather in the suffocating Texas heat for Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic at Dripping Springs...
TIME must long for the good old days when one could have a picnic at a crucifixion or spend a satisfying afternoon watching the bloody tortures in the Roman Colosseum...