Word: snowbird
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...Byron Vazakas, John Hollander, and Edward Honig. The second issue printed a previously unpublished scene from William Alfred's Agamemnon in the same modern idiom which characterizes the reworking of the play as it recently appeared. The most remarkable of the single poems, to my mind, is Honig's Snowbird Blues, in which his jerky rhythm and unusual images create a bizarre and troubling effect...
...Sailor Bill Taylor, managing editor of Yachting* conceived a plan for racing dinghies in the winter, dubbed it "frostbite" racing. This chilly, spray-dashed sport, with its quota of icy dunkings, takes place on days when even the most avid snowbird golfer or polar bear swimmer sits by the fire...
...fans seldom see a flying lady "snowbird." Last week, at New York's Bear Mountain, 4,000 blue-nosed fans not only saw one but were dazzled by her pluck. The rare bird: Dorothy Graves, 18-year-old factory worker from Greenfield, Mass...
That afternoon Their Majesties went to the Plains of Abraham, there heard 50,000 school children sing O Canada and God Save the King in French. That night there was a speechless dinner at the Château, at which the King dawdled over snowbird breasts on toast and trout, while the Queen, who is apparently dieting, ate almost nothing, fussed with her gloves until at dinner's end the King...
...first time last week a U. S. opera was presented in a German theatre. The theatre was the Dresden Staatsoper where Fritz Busch is conductor; the opera: Snowbird by Composer Theodore Stearns...