Word: scapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Fawkesians were sparked by a Queens milkman whose nickname is "Nathan Hale," a Long Island land scape artist, and a 40-year-old Danbury State Teachers College sophomore. All belonged to the Minutemen, a hyper-patriotic organization whose members covertly train themselves in guerrilla warfare against the day when a Communist coup takes over the U.S. Not content to wait for the revolution, the Sunday warriors aimed last week to destroy three rustic, rundown camps that at one time or another had been used for left-wing or pacifist meetings...
...believe that a man's home is his castle. 31 Athens Street is a combination of Classical Greek, Continental Renaissance, American Comfort, and William Alfred. The white walls ("It makes everything much brighter, doesn't it?") are covered with illustrations of Greek figures, portraits of colonial women, a sea-scape, some French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come...
...believe that a man's home is his castle. 31 Athens Street is a combination of Classical Greek, Continental Renaissance, American Comfort, and William Alfred. The white walls ("It makes everything much brighter, doesn't it?") are covered with illustrations of Greek figures, portraits of colonial women, a sea-scape, some French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come...
MAISTERS were ther also, nyne or tin Who knew the clerkes ech as single men, And on the knyght they turned al ful sore To aske hadde he been listing by the dore. But from afar the worthy knyght was wys And knew he well what oft hadde scape his eyes...
...What are you writing?" he asked. The answer was an unexpected surprise. "I am writing my reminiscences," said General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. With that casual admission, the articulate hero of Corregidor and Bataan and a host of other evocative place names scattered along the land scape of three wars first announced his personal contribution to the written history of his times...