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...portrait he commissioned; "Wait, sir, and see how time will render you,/ Who talk of vision but have no sight." "The Marginal Way," a poem about the dying capacity for celebration, confessed "the time's fright within me," alluding to Auschwitz, and knew some newspaper on a porch would "flap the tidings of some dirty...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: Richard Wilbur and 'Things of This World' | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...Southern "black shack" is made out of wood, that has become gray from several years of exposure. There is no glass in the windows, or plumbing or electricity in the house. The shaded front porch is where most of the people spend their time, mainly out of necessity, since there is not enough room in the house. Behind the house there is a small wooden outhouse underneath the house there are chickens, rats, and black children...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: For Over-All Misery, Alabama Wins Handily | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

...conservative Rules Committee, helped spring many important Administration measures. Honoring a promise to Rayburn, Kennedy repaid that loyalty in 1963 with a judgeship in the Western Texas Federal District Court. Two years later, Johnson elevated Thornberry to the Circuit Court and had him sworn in on the front porch of the L.B.J. ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...alienation bit, the under-30 thing, the unromantic sex kick-and will realize that no matter how laughable, these stereotypes, too, reflect a troubled reality. The hippie scene and the identity crisis will no doubt someday assume an air of innocence and cherished worth along with the Front Porch, the Soda Fountain and the Family, which now warm the nostalgia of late-night retrospection. Hollywood, which liked to see itself as Everyman's Scheherazade, has also been his Cassandra-the two roles are inseparable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE LATE SHOW AS HISTORY | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...better half. Sounds of Silence with its kaleidoscopic imagery was the title tune of their big 1965 album, which also had the gentleness of April Come She Will. Two of the new songs, On the Strip and Mrs. Robinson, are bright and bouncy, but the others, Sun-porch Cha-cha-cha, The Folks and The Singleman Party Foxtrot, don't quite measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 10, 1968 | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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