Word: picnicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small European cars starts at noon. At 2:30 p.m. the main event will be flagged off. Bring your own refreshments since the track's food will be over-priced and indigestible. It's a chance to get out of Boston, see a great automobile race, have a picnic, and get some...
Legal Seafoods in Inman Square is important because it serves fresh fish, although sometimes the interior tries too hard to approximate a picnic area. In the North End of Boston, try the Cafe Sicilia which serves dimes-pastry with orange and green frosting and coffee. Tony's, nearby, has no menu. Tony just gets up in the morning and makes something. Carmela of Lowell House says: "Tony's particular about boys" styles. If he doesn't like it, he says he'll pin it up on the wall." That's not the only thing Tony doesn't like...
...Freshman Council is considering several substitutes for Jubilee. One possibility is a picnic at Warren Island in Boston Harbor-a traditional part of past Jubilee weekends. The council also will not hire a big-name band-a major financial drain in the past...
These qualities of mind and art are never better summed up than in the book's final poem, "Prologue at Sixty." Now beginning to listen to thoughts of his own death "like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," the poet remains stubbornly tentative to the end. Part prayer, part history lesson, "Sixty" links Auden in his Austrian retreat to the Northern barbarian races-with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through...