Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swinging Sam gave for me was wild, icy, far out. Nobody moved for hours. We sat on the floor, looking inward, Zenward, sipping our good gold Schaefer brew. Suddenly the door swung open, and a bearded, haunted, serene face appeared, and it was a poet and he had been out there everywhere and he had dug it all and he was back. He knew, man, he knew it and we knew it, that he knew. He was crammed full of Zen-wisdom and his eyes were wise and wild and his whole body was bandaged. He was beat...
...third short story was Comes a Day. That's the first I sold. I was twenty-one." As for the play Comes a Day, "I just wanted to write a play, and I sat down and wrote one. Actually this is the second play I wrote. The first one was Out by the Country Club. Joshua Logan bought that." Country Club was preceded by a novel of the same name...
...last summer George Wolfe and his wife sat down for a serious talk in their home in the suburbs of Lewiston, Idaho (pop. 15,000). Subject: the education of their seven children, aged 5 to 14. The Wolfes were worried: it was bad enough that daughter Sharon (12), when asked to name the continent she lived on, replied that she did not even know what a continent was; the rest of the children were not making much progress either. Besides, the Wolfes were concerned that most parents in their neighborhood seemed to be losing control over their children. "Take...
...When he sat in the uproar of the National Assembly in Paris, Pouvanaa Oopa, sole representative of Tahiti and its sister Pacific islands of French Polynesia, was the mildest of men. But back home in peaceful Tahiti, Pouvanaa Oopa became a terror in paradise...
...stars, it can rely on a fine supply of home-grown talent, enormous, well-earned prestige, and a manager with a sense of humor. Last week Manager Bing heard that one of the speakers scheduled for the anniversary program planned to invoke a comparison with Elvis Presley. He promptly sat down and scrawled a note: "I feel this name ought not to be mentioned in our House! We do not acknowledge his existence...