Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have me confused. I would have sworn that I gave the commencement address at San Fernando Valley State College this year. And I talked about computers too, although not nearly so poetically as James Dickey...
There were the familiar complaints about the computerized life. Poet James Dickey warned at California's San Fernando Valley State College that, on the edge of the "anonymous modern abyss, you must develop your private brinksmanship, your strategies, your ruses, your delightful and desperate games of inner survival, whether they take the form of Batman comics or whistling Handel's Water Music, enabling you to live perpetually at the edge but very much on your own ground." It was Yale's President Kingman Brewster who perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against...
...very tip of the ravine, the trooper reined his mount in horrified astonishment. Spread out below him were the Zulu impi, or horde: 20,000 warriors crouched silent as death, carpeting the floor of the valley for more than a mile. The South African sun danced on long hide shields, glinted off a few musket barrels and a forest of assegais, the double-edged spears that sliced a man's belly to let his evil spirit...
...VALLEY OF THE LATIN BEAR, by Alexander Lenard. Two years ago, the author charmed his way into literary life with the succes fou of the season-a translation into Latin of Winnie the Pooh. In this book, as charming in its way as Pooh was, Lenard tells of his life as a doctor and pharmacologist in a remote village in southern Brazil and his genially picaresque philosophy of life...
...have once thought so. But after 13 years Ogden Nash came to the conclusion that it was time for him to go. Manhattan was no longer up his alley. The cost of living! Twelve bucks for a dozen lilies of the valley. So he packed up pun pen and went back where he lived before. To Baltimore. There, he sang the oriole's springtime song: "I'm back where I belong...