Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Doerner, edited by Marshall Loeb and researched by Claire Barnett, all of whom have firm ideas about what Nader should level his sights on next. For Doerner, who stands 6 ft. 5½ in., the big issue is "the enormous conspiracy against tall people. I can't ride in the back seat of any car, I can't find clothes to fit, and shaving mirrors always seem to be fixed at the level of my belt. It's a plot to keep us unclad and bedraggled." For the life of him, Doerner can't understand...
...stuffed, 60-year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when her Teddy got lost on a good-will tour...
Unfortunately, Objects: USA, which originated at the Smithsonian, had to be split up in Boston because the Boston University gallery couldn't hold all 308 objects. But it's well worth the ride from Commonwealth Avenue to Arlington Street to see it all. The wooden pieces-all at the University of Massachusetts-were the ones I most coveted. Wendell Castle's "mahogany and silver leaf desk" was so curvingly sculptural. resting on an undulating snake of wood, that I didn't realize it was a desk until I read the wall label...
Hitching up Connecticut Avenue proved next to impossible. One old man stopped his car and asked if I wanted a ride out of town. When I told him I just wanted to get towards the neighborhood of the Washington Cathedral, he shot off down the street...
...ride dropped us off at the apartment sometime after one; we soon learned that the friend of a friend had returned to reclaim the bedroom, and the original friend had taken over the living room floor, and, sorry, but there really wasn't any room left. By that time our ride had also left, so off we set, on foot, to try to reach the house of yet another, friend that lived nearby...