Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a clean, safe town. No one can just come round With ribbons and bright thread Or new books to be read. This is an established place. We have accepted patterns in lace, And ban itinerant vendors...
...national election. The three-member poetry prize committee of the National Endowment for the Arts has chosen his poem, Three Bad Signs, for a $500 award. Completed during the Indiana primary campaign last year, the poem appears to be a sly indictment of the typical small-town reaction to Clean Gene's crusaders...
...play, concerned with the destruction wrought by forms of fire in a town, seemed to incorporate the fire on stage into the plot. While two of the actors tried to stamp the fire out unnoticed, another member of the cast spoke of his life in "ashes and smoke...
Second Youth. Janáček was born in 1854 in Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia. He studied music in the town of Brno, married there (unhappily), suffered through the early death of his two children, and enjoyed no major success as a composer until he was 60. About that time, he fell in love with Kamila Stössl, 38 years his junior and the wife of an antique dealer. The affair was apparently platonic; nonetheless, it brought the composer an astonishingly productive second youth. From the time of his meeting with Kamila, his music surged with an energy...
...company's salesmen stay together and play together. A team of them often converges on a town and spends the whole week blanketing it. On weekends, salesmen and their families are expected to invest their leisure time in the company of local managers...