Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared "decadent." Said Contreras: "They wouldn't let me sing what I wanted to, and they wouldn't let me make a tour inside the country, and finally they put a 70% tax on my wages to make me stop asking." So he and the others set sail to join their countrymen in Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and pray for a return to a free Cuba...
...Samuel Eliot Morison of Boston. As a boy, he mastered the literature of the sea from Aeschylus to Conrad. As a man, he became a famous historian of the sea (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II). Man and boy, he sailed "down north and up along" the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia summer after summer, and made voyages of opportunity in all quarters of the globe. Now, in a brief delightful memoir, the old salt recalls with affection some of the finest hours he has passed between wind and water...
Thus there is a new breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much...
Gibran was instructed in the Maronite rites of the Roman Catholic Church, but he was not a churchgoer, and his book would be out of place in any cathedral. The Prophet, Almustafa, about to sail away from Orphalese, where he has sojourned for twelve years, submits to questions from the villagers. They ask him about Love, Joy, Sorrow, Freedom, Pain, Giving, Work and other human affairs. He answers in mystical terms that seem to carry great meaning: "Work is love made visible." "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." "Beauty is Eternity gazing at itself in a mirror...
Whether noisy or quiet, at least one thing differentiated the speakers this year. Where they once used to stride along roads (long), sail oceans (uncharted), or climb mountains (lofty), they are now in orbit (dizzying). Said Emmett Dedmon, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, at George Williams College: "May the explosions of your generation cut as clean as those which freed the capsule of Gemini IV from the booster engines." Whatever his fellow editors might think of that particular metaphor, Dedmon stated the dominant theme of the 1965 commmencement speeches: the "explosions" of the younger generation...