Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gotten bigger." The whole idea of scale started him thinking about monuments, and so he drew them. Not monuments in the usual sense of statues or obelisks, they were things that attain monumentality through constant use: a toilet float that rises and falls with the tide on the Thames River in London, a gigantic pair of scissors to replace the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., a huge windshield wiper for Grant Park in Chicago, a melting Good Humor bar to replace the Pan Am Building in New York. Nor are all the monuments big. The most poignant, in fact...
...complexities and also in its dullness." And, "Gothicism, whatever it is, is not a literary tradition so much as a fairly realistic assessment of modern life." The assessment is based on six years of living and working in Detroit before she and her husband Raymond Smith moved across the river to Ontario, where they both teach literature at the University of Windsor. Detroit is Miss Gates' ideal American city of the '60s. It is, she says, a city so transparent "that one can see it ticking...
Across the Detroit River in a small waterfront house in Windsor's quietly affluent Riverside section, Joyce Carol Gates and her husband are sheltered from the city's clang and danger. Living in Canada, the Smiths remain almost entirely American in their concerns. Joyce Carol-though she is against the Viet Nam war -has little sympathy with the kind of radical who, she feels, confuses personal frustrations with public problems. A minor character in her latest novel defines the type perfectly. She has small patience, too, with intellectuals who find her work too full of social and economic...
...King Fisher and Ben Thompson. King Fisher is known to have killed 12 men-not including Mexicans. He had a big ranch on the Nueces River in Texas, and he used to shoot people who came onto his property. Ben Thompson, at the age of 13, deliberately shot a playmate. He later killed a Frenchman in a New Orleans knife duel. And when in the Confederate Army, he killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown...
...were cruising along, as only a bus can cruise, on West Side Drive or some other such road in the Bronx. but then traffic jammed and we spent most of the next half-hour sitting still with a good view of the Hudson River and the trash along the banks. Breath-taking. But the inside of the bus was really stale. Here we were sitting in the middle of traffic with foul air hanging all over the bus- and Mr. Fair had stopped talking. The thought of running a big race had to be the most disgusting idea to these...