Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether the day begins in his cluttered fifth-floor apartment in a Manhattan upper East Side brownstone or in his white frame cottage in Key West, Williams brews up a pot of Stygian coffee and plants himself in front of a Smith-Corona electric. He has no set output and contends that "out of a year's writing days, there are only five good ones." He may work on any one of three or four manuscripts. Last week, in Key West, he was working on his next play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, about...
...Roney Plaza, overflow customers were checked into beachside cabanas. Said the Roney Plaza's general manager, Jack Mitchell: "The nearest toilets are halfway down the promenade, so we've equipped each cabana with other arrangements. We're calling it 'The Cot 'n Pot Club.'" The Fontainebleau was embarrassedly forced to house Peace Corpsman Sargent Shriver in a cabana beside the huge pool. Other Fontainebleau guests were roughing it aboard a fleet of yachts and houseboats tethered in nearby Indian Creek...
...life in an affluent society. They prefer to wear beards and blue jeans, avoid soap and water, live in dingy tenements or, weather permitting, take to the road as holy hoboes, pilgrims to nowhere. Most of them adore Negroes, junkies, jazzmen and Zen. The more extreme profess to smoke pot, eat peyote, sniff heroin, practice perversion. They are, in short, bohemians; the squalor of their lives is reflected in their verse...
...their followers, is from another a lesson on how to win a war. But more than that, the real Communist lesson is that, by adopting a certain sort of military organization, a people can be reborn. on the military plane, this means doing away with "that headquarters ("bald, pot-bellied, fat-assed men, incapable of marching half a dozen miles without melting away in their own dishwater-like sweat, with like Franco and the fawning manners of Spanish Jesuits"), the broader effect is to reawaken appreciation of the very values the Communists were trying to destroy...
Said he: "This is the first pot I ever won without having a hand in the game." Through his performance and personality, Commandant Shoup, 57, has had his hand very much in the game ever since - to the point that he has become President Kennedy's favorite service chief...