Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough. When it was clear that he would not receive a third stay of execution, he handed over his possessions, including his pet parakeet, to two of his surviving sons, signed papers giving the corneas of his eyes to a blind boy in Buena Vista. Then, after a short walk to the changing room on the third floor, he stripped to his shorts-condemned men must wear as little as possible so that cyanide will not cling to their clothes and endanger guards-and walked into the gas chamber. Five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped...
...problem became acute late in 1965, when troops were out on combat operations for days on end with no chance to change their socks or dry their feet. Their feet became white, wrinkled, and so painful that at best it was difficult to walk. For some, it was impossible. These men had to be evacuated. Warm-water foot was causing more casualties than the Viet Cong...
Michael's birth; his stepfather is a grocery-chain manager. His first walk-on part was as lead choirboy in a processional at St. Paul's Cathedral "because I looked such a cherub. I would just mime the words." He dropped out of school at 15, toured as a boy soprano in Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera. His real education came from performing in 500 radio playlets for the BBC's "School Broadcasts...
...metropolitan imagery necessary to a contemporary poet: he needed less an eye for the four seasons of Walden Pond than for the five boroughs of New York City. He was to write: Now the midwinter grind is on me, New York drills through my nerves,/ as I walk/ the chewed-up streets. And, in a cataclysmic line: When Cain beat out his brother Abel's brains/ the Maker laid great cities in his soul...
...borrow, if I may, a few words from the CRIMSON article of April 27: "....They are everywhere. Walk into Lamont and you see three of four of them, hands tracing large 'S' patterns with their fingers down the pages. And there are many more to come...