Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist Party's credo of hard work. It is a pedestrian's heaven; Albania is quite possibly the most earless country anywhere. The people are suspicious, curious, unsmiling-testimony to the effectiveness of Party Boss Hoxha's motto: "It is fear that guards the vineyard...
...yearned for and the barely attainable; his is a personal coming to terms with a world of irreconcilable powers. The painter bodies forth optimism ... the draftsman cannot escape his more negative vision, beyond appearances." So Klinger the painter moved sedately between a professorship in Leipzig and his country vineyard, turning out the portraits and allegories his patrons sought, and ignoring the obsessions which Klinger the draftsman could not deny himself...
...dedicated entirely to a man whom Dewey knew well. As Governor, he had appointed him to a vacancy on New York's highest court in 1946. Now, 25 years later, Dewey wrote: "Some lawyers become judges because they have worked hard enough and long enough in the political vineyard to persuade the dominant political party to nominate them. Some judges, like ambassadors, arrive at their destination by the route of heavy political contributions. Then there are some lawyers who become judges because they were born to be judges. Stanley H. Fuld, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals...
...wintry doubts the young Taylors might have entertained on the subject of natural beauty were dispelled during summers on Martha's Vineyard at the family's big house in Chilmark, hard by the long breakers and sandy wastes of South Beach. In those days there was plenty of everything, including time and money. John Sheldon, a friend of Livingston Taylor, remembers that many days were passed taking apart motorboat engines and trying to soup them up. "We dropped a few overboard," he says, "but ruining expensive stuff was the usual. Ike always provided replacements." In those days, too, Dr. Taylor...
However promising professionally, the ragged edge of the New York rock scene was a personal disaster for James. He was 18, but as Kootch points out, he had never had any exposure to real life. "New York isn't like Martha's Vineyard." James had a little money from his parents, and he lived all alone in an uptown pad furnished with a mattress and a radio. "He got hung up on taking in weird people?runaway teen-agers and people like that." Taylor was also getting heavily into drugs, especially heroin. Zach Wiesner had quit the Flying Machine after...