Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions. So I got one family to give me a note of introduction to another family, etc. It worked fine. And although these Puerto Ricans are about as poor as you can get, they were unfailingly hospitable, usually insisting that I drink a steaming cup of coffee (75? a pound in Spanish Harlem) before I left. It was a weary, rewarding...
Arts in Zammbuclc. Defiantly, Pound prophesied that from America's literary dark ages a great renaissance would be born. Unfortunately, his plans for helping along that renaissance are reminiscent of his later harebrained schemes for the world's monetary salvation. Artists in America should be crowded into great academies and subsidized, thought Pound, preferably by millionaires. His ideal of the subsidized artist is best expressed in his anecdote about the Sultan of Zammbuck who, during a British state dinner, was once asked about the state of the arts back in Zammbuck...
...drink, women and tools his heart desired, and after some drinking and some lovemaking he would create masterpieces. But then the misguided British stopped the custom. They said it was slavery. "If any great city in America could tether a hundred young artists, chosen for their inventive faculties," concluded Pound, "that city would within two decades become the center of occidental...
...reader of Patria Mia will regretfully conclude that someone should have tethered Ezra Pound in time, before, like the arts of Zammbuck, he went...
...Felton, former College track star now attending the Business School, threw the 16-pound hammer 187 feet, 7 1-4 inches during the annual spring games of the New York Athletic Club at Travers Island Saturday. Felton's toss, which broke the meet record of 185 feet, 1 inch set by the late Matt McGrath in 1913, was the longest hammer throw by an American in 37 years...