Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beach Boys. Three months ago I was carefully screening my bars. For a while I wasn't drinking anywhere if the juke box didn't have "Sail on Sailor." Never got past that song for the rest of the album, though. My connections with the Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented...
...riders led off by Sonny and Cher and their daughter Chastity, 4, who was crowned Queen of the Circus. Star after star -from Carol Burnett to Jimmy Stewart-rode once around the ring, helping to raise $25,000 for the S.S. Hope, a floating clinic full of doctors who sail the seas to teach medicine in underdeveloped countries...
...sail between nonsense and terrible absurdity--sail between stiff, coherent system which has nothing to do with the universe (the stiffness of numbers, grammatical constructions) and the universe, which has nothing to do with the names we give or seize our leverage by. Let man take his reasoning place, expecting nothing, since man is not the invisible player but the player's pawn. Seize the whole board, snatch after godhood, and all turns useless waste. Such is my story...
...April, our Science section reported on the amazing flying ability of a paper airplane inadvertently created by Richard Kline, a Manhattan advertising executive who likes to sail paper planes from his office window. As a result of the story, Kline has received inquiries from all over the world, including a request from a White House aide for a working replica. He is dickering with the Milton Bradley Co., which has expressed interest in producing plastic models of the plane. His technical adviser, a Notre Dame aerodynamicist, has requested funding from the Defense Department to study further why the plane flies...
...April 14, Coleman decided that enough was enough, so he set sail for Europe ("I love art. I love opera"), returning just in time for Haverford's commencement exercises, where he told the students, "There is a need to vary the rhythms in your life." Coleman does not believe that every college president should collect garbage-although he says one of them has expressed envy of his sabbatical, as have two bankers, two reporters and a minister-but he has recommended to the trustees that Haverford students be not just permitted but required to take time out for work...