Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...published poems in the Atlantic -mostly free verse, of which Frost disapproved. Sample lines: "You too amaze me, houses of Brooklyn./ All day you are meek, you cup/ unhappiness like water/ when all you want is to be nothing but windows/ to take off into the sky like a flock of birds...
...Djibouti, a new flag of blue, green, white and red replaced the French Tricolor atop a floodlit pole at the high commissioner's residence overlooking the mud flats at the edge of Djibouti harbor. As a 21-gun salute boomed out and fireworks lit up the night sky, the French Territory of the Afars and Issas (T.F.A.I.) became the Republic of Djibouti, Africa's 50th independent state. The most notable visitor present at the celebrations: President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing, who was scheduled to fly in from Paris for a few hours to offer congratulations...
...warm Pacific off the island of Hawaii. Acadia National Park is as green as Hawaii Volcanoes is barren. Cool, thickly forested hills march down to the Atlantic off the coast of Maine, where the water is icy enough to turn the hardiest of swimmers as blue as the summer sky in a matter of minutes...
...saucy maidens. As Cecily Car dew and Gwendolen Fairfax, Kathleen Widdoes and Patricia Conolly lob and volley Wilde's lines with devastating precision. The Fourth of July will be a little early this year. Over Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, comic flares light the night sky...
Ecevit was clearly not about to seek that kind of accommodation with Demirel on his own. He is a poet-warrior who studied social psychology and Middle Eastern history at Harvard and wrote the words to his own campaign song, Harmony (sample verse: "Cloud to the sky, rain to the cloud, soil to the rain, how well in harmony"). After a huge celebratory party at the R.P.P.'s yellow stucco headquarters on Ankara's Farabi Street (once home of the Turkish intelligence agency), he plunged into talks to see whether he could form an effective government. His goal...