Word: vanishings
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...members of Congress don't really want to impeach Nixon, they just want him to vanish," a prominent political analyst said Tuesday. "The Congress doesn't want to have to deal with the issue," he added...
...important as his own self-critical realization of the difficulty of that task. His latest work, a very short play called Not I, focuses on a spotlit mouth, a disembodied voice babbling its lines. For as words are picked more and more severely, the speaker himself begins to vanish. Words break free for themselves. Beckett has shown that it is only by being able to trick the words into saying us that we can continue to speak...
...Saturday and Sunday, it was the home team that overtook Harvard in the second day of events to win the event. Terry Neff, who was the low-point skipper in A Division, and Chris Middendorf, collected an eight-point lead after Saturday's six races, only to see it vanish in light airs on Sunday. Coast Guard won by the same margin...
...that Willa could go for days without hearing English spoken outside her house. She was wildly excited. To her, the prairie grass looked as if it were running; it seemed possible to hear the corn growing in the summer night. In the next eleven years, the frontier was to vanish. "The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies." When Cather began to write, it was already with powerful nostalgia...
...then another and another, until the colonel had been rearmed no less than a dozen times. Finally, in the '40s, the city switched to a wooden replica-in acknowledgment of the accelerating costs of labor, if not the rates of degeneracy. Of course, the wooden swords began to vanish-5, 10, 15, 20, 25. In desperation the city switched to molded fiber-glass swords. Now those too are disappearing. But the city remains determined not to leave Shaw emptyhanded. "To give up," explains George Boutilier, superintendent for maintenance for Boston's parks, "would be saying go ahead...