Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grandmaison and a host of some fifty Harvard and Radcliffe politicos gathered together over aluminum cans and scattered shack food last night to watch and listen to the Massachusetts primary returns...
...eldest of nine children; father sometimes fixing and trading junk cars, hauling with a pickup truck, dishwashing, more frequently out of work, then abandoning the family; mother turning to alcohol; two brothers often in prison or reform school; one uncle a convict; life, with no privacy, in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., and in a grandmother's house in Alton, Ill.; postwar service as an Army MP in Nurnberg, Germany; a discharge for a "lack of adaptability" to military service...
Inside a 52-ft.-high aluminum geodesic dome, which acts as a buffer against the drifting snow, are three prefabricated buildings resembling large mobile homes. They contain sleeping facilities for 40 people, a communications center (including a ham radio shack for contacts with home), a dining hall and kitchen, a small gym and library, a photographic darkroom and several computer-equipped scientific laboratories. In Quonset-like buildings adjoining the dome are the base's power plant, biology lab, dispensary and garage. One of the huts also shelters an ingenious freshwater system that uses heat from the diesel generators...
...there may be a reason why)." The poem seems to invoke the voice of an African goddess who croons a mixture of nursery rhymes, Egyptian myth, parables of the Biblical parables (such as the tale of noah who built new/-ark), and a snatch of the Temptations singing "Psychedelic Shack." All these grandiose items jostle each other benignly without ever coalescing into a meaningful idea: it's just Giovanni presenting her unreal ego. And Time likes to call the poet "a shrewd and energetic propagandist." It kind of reminds you of Beverly Johnson, the black model, who drew the attention...
...bustled out, and remarked that gee I had even remembered my license plate number in filling out the form. She advised us not to sleep too near the lake because it was very cold, and indeed, we almost perished, reading thrillers by candlelight in the tent. Anyway, the shack that served as rest rooms was the wonderful thing about the place. Absolutely spotless, immaculate, and furnished in Alaskan dentist's office splendour. Shivering from the woods with pine-smeared toothbrush, you enter a room with a mirror in the shape of a crucifix. The walls are neatly papered with church...