Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old cameraman corrals good-looking Cliffise as they walk by the Coop, persuades them to pose, and snaps their picture. There is a young boy who tells about how he plays the saxaphone by tooting notes softly until he finds one that sounds good. An eight-grader has built his own short story about Chicago Blitbottom into a three-act play...
Evelyn Nielsen Wood invented the concept of "dynamic reading" and the Institute of Reading Dynamics. Both have been causing a lot of confusion, and not only in the more than 50 American cities which have working Institutes. They are everywhere. Walk into Lamont and you see three or four of them, hands tracing large "S" patterns with their fingers down the pages. And there are many more to come, at least 100,000 more this year. If you read the newspaper you have seen the advertisement: "READ FAST, ACHIEVE MORE...
...increase for the first ten days of this month. Chrysler reported a 25% rise, struggling American Motors had an 8% gain, and General Motors improved sales by 5%. Only Ford was still off with a 9% decline from last year. "People," said Pontiac General Sales Manager Thomas L. King, "walk into showrooms now in a buying rather than a looking mood...
...equally sure that it should be made in a suggestive way that remains open to modification. There are certain parallels between Juvenal-Lowell on Rome and Lowell on New York, for example. Consider the lines "Behind each bush perhaps a knife" ("Central Park") and "If you take a walk at night/ carry a little silver, be prepared/ to think each shadow hides a knife or spar" ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"). The more significant parallels with Juvenal, however, lie in the Maine poems, where the wish "to break loose" is in profound tension with the wish to return to "when...
Alfred Kazin's Starting Out in the Thirties, a short autobiography of his early years, is like the more successful of these after dinner conversations. Kazin, a literary critic and historian, wasn't an influential man of the thirties and his book is no walk through the corridors and closets of power. He wasn't even an influential critic and probably, had never even been in the Hotel Algonquin. Kazin's memoirs are the acute recollections of an observant young man finding his way through the New York of the Depression...