Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town of Chièvres-hardly grand and barely a place-stared sullenly as the cavalcade of black limousines and a police escort swirled up. "Things like that don't happen much around here," allowed one, "so we figured that it must be that Chape [Walloon dialect for SHAPE] thing again." It was. NATO's General Lyman Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was hunting new quarters...
Under Charles de Gaulle's eviction order, SHAPE must vacate its lodgings outside Paris by April 1. When NATO decided to move its command to Belgium, the generals expected Belgians to propose a site at Wavre, just outside Brussels. But the Belgian government, a reluctant host in any case, had other ideas. It suggested a less attractive spot at Chièvres, 35 miles southwest of the capital, a far safer site for Bruxellois in case anyone ever drops an atom bomb on NATO's military headquarters. Understandably, SHAPE recoiled in horror, since for almost two decades...
...clouds that look "like grey wool." At least half of them, however, make nervy experiments in fictional form, and almost all show the kind of ultimate concern with human beings that is no less religious because it calls itself existential. In almost every instance, the writers courageously explore the shape of a new fiction in form and spirit adequate...
...remain an ordinary citizen, the mantle of First Son-in-Law will inevitably shape his life. He is already, for example, chary of a career in the capital, where almost any job that he might take would leave him and the White House open to charges of influence. In Austin, at least, the newlyweds can take their place comfortably in the provincial squirearchy...
...first line. But, as always, Dylan has bad luck with the blues format. The license for repetition seems to attract him to lyrics more banal than usual, when what is needed is something singularly well-chosen and repeatable. The other song, "Leopardskin Pillbox Hat," has the loose, talking-blues, shape of the "I Shall Be Free" and theirs, its jokes are mostly private or unfunny...