Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stuck on her first chapter, the novelist ventured to read it a few years ago at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. The appreciation that she sensed encouraged Mary McCarthy to sail home and finish her book, The Group. The Y's famed Poetry Center is like that. There Dylan Thomas wrote the final lines of Under Milk Wood, barely in time to hand them to Y actors who were giving the play its first group reading. Robert Frost made an annual pilgrimage for ten years. Britain's T. S. Eliot made it a top stop. So have...
...meet was sailed in 44-foot Naval Academy yawls, and marked the only opportunity for the team to sail in craft of substantial size this year...
...wonderful journal (found in a trunk in the attic) recites like a Greek chorus the ancient obligations to race and region. He had taught his sons to "fell a tree, sow, cultivate and harvest, save money, countersink a nail, make cider with a hand press, clean a gun, sail a boat, etc." But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe. Leander's two sons, Moses and Coverly, were expelled from the paradisial St. Botolphs, but in the case of Coverly (who doubles for Author...
...maker of Mercedes, both of whose annual sales are well above the $1 billion mark. But Director Stork can draw confidence from the fact that his strategy of offering many models is precisely the same one that Opel's U.S. parent used in the late 1920s to sail past Ford and become the world's largest automaker...
David Hays' settings and lighting have risen to the challenge. Despite O'Neill's extravagant demands, there are no long waits between scenes. In one particularly ingenious solution, Kublai's arbor like baldachin is transformed before our eyes into theatre-high ship masts with full sail; the stage revolves while bathed by rippling spotlights, and we are on the high seas...