Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uncle Willie is not that its story makes Abie's Irish Rose seem positively avantgarde; it is not even its stale and stupid quips, but rather its greasy benevolence. Fairly often, to be sure. Actor Skulnik shakes himself free from it: with a demonstration of how to walk so that shoes will not wear out, with a tale of how each month his landlord pays him rent, with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician, to make it vanish...
...withdrew to the desert to learn their true mission. Hopper did the same thing unconsciously and by necessity: he took up commercial art. The advertising and publishing houses that bought his drawings of storybook characters "posturing and grimacing" were desert sands to him: ''Sometimes I'd walk around the block a couple of times before I'd go in, wanting the job for money and at the same time hoping to hell I wouldn't get the lousy thing...
Physically, convalescent Stuart was like a child, having to learn all over again to stand alone and then to walk and, finally, to use his arms and hands and even to put food in his mouth. Mounting a short flight of steps was as exhausting as climbing the Matterhorn. Mentally, he subscribed to a new set of values in which the blades of grass and daisies in a pasture had more intrinsic worth than the expensive cattle that fed on them, and nature's annual resurrection in spring seemed proof of the presence of God and the promise...
...year later, when we began to go to the zoo, we discovered that reindeers have an awful odor and, being behind a fence, staring out unhappily, they couldn't even fly. At fourteen we realized that Santa was so fat that his ability to walk, not to mention fly, was a highly dubious question. With another year, morality entered the picture, and we decided that a big-red-nose was a sure sign of excessive drinking, his bulging waist a sign of slovenly eating, and his shaggy-white-beard a sign of sloppiness and laxness...
Frost also read two short poems on California, a new work inspired by a walk at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and another about Gus, a stray dog who came to visit...