Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrates movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing...
Tiles & Horseshoe. The ruins, says Savoy, cover some 6 to 10 sq. mi. and stretch across three succeeding plateaus. The first plateau-roughly four times the size of Machu Picchu-begins at about 4,500 ft.; the second is at 5,500 ft., and the last, poking eerily up through a misty halo of clouds, may reach as high...
...that Powell understands as well as any writer now working, and by the long arm of coincidence, which Powell nudges more shamelessly than any novelist since Dickens. When a character in The Valley of Bones moves, another character inevitably twitches at the end of a fictional thread that may stretch all the way back to A Question of Upbringing, the first in his series. Nick has a casual conversation with a fellow officer, and a memory floats Joyce-like to the surface: "I was struck by a thought as to where I might have seen Pennistone before...
...down the idea, so this spring Mrs. Symonette approached Heinz Scheiderbauer, Vienna's leading independent TV film maker, who leaped at the proposition. Rosenstock took leave from Funny Girl to write, direct and conduct the show. Just completed-with Mississippi River scenes that were shot along a muddy stretch of the Danube ten miles upriver from Vienna-the German-language version of Huckleberry will be shown in West Germany beginning this October. The music shows Weill both at his threadbare worst and his richly melodic best...
...midsummer 1964 it became necessary to page 150 ranking painters and sculptors, the place to go would be the Hamptons on the eastern end of Long Island, an area best known as a golfing, sailing, tennis-playing, tanning and drinking preserve for the rich. A 40-mile stretch of sea, sand and shore towns, the Hamptons have attracted artists ever since the 1870s, when Winslow Homer went there to paint impressionistic oils of ladies dipping their toes in the surf. Last week the art colony was at its midseason busiest. The oldest colonial, visionary Architect Frederick Kiesler...