Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fang (Nervous Norvus; Dot). One of those tough patter songs with a science-fiction twist: this cat was born on Mars and he's laying the other planets low. He wears "real nervous pegs with a crazy crease," and he's gonna "hit these chicks with a Martian jolt." Good for a spin...
Phyllis Smith's poems are three brave attempts to make words into sights and songs and children's voice. Her hard, heavy lines and sheer, skimming ones are packed with consonants, alliterative even driving, to suggest the twist of a bronze by Henry Moore or the voice of a counter tenor, or a child's playing. Even more than the others, Reclining Figure is of substantial pauses that might better be heard than read...
...their historic James River to become the Ruhr of the South, but it's bound to happen.") Along the York River, a new $70 million American Oil Co. refinery is in full operation near Yorktown, where the grass-carpeted trenches of the final battle for American independence still twist in a mystifying maze. And along the Potomac, in the Arlington-Alexandria area across from the nation's capital, are beehives of brick housing developments inhabited by thousands of federal workers viewed by most Virginians as foreigners...
Michael Joseph Mansfield's promotion to a command post would provide a new twist to a strange career: he quit school in the eighth grade, ran off and joined the Navy (he lied about his age, then 14), served a year during World War I, was discharged, promptly entered the Army for a year, received another honorable discharge, enlisted in the Marine Corps, stayed two years-and came out, not as any sort of commander, but as a private first class...
Botsford could have brought him down at mid-field, but a twist of his hips allowed McGill to get by the defender, and his own speed carried him the rest...