Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ones. There are harder ones--like McFail's. Just to get into McFail's you have to slide down a rope through a 45-foot pit, wearing a diver's wet suit. Then, you squeeze down a slim 55-foot vertical fissure, with your back pressed hard against one wall, your feet against the other, in turn lowering each a little...
...oils and 64 watercolors, drawings and graphics, opened last week in New York's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. "My paintings are really a personal diary of my life," he says. This year, for instance, he did a view of the Soviet zone from a skyscraper near the Berlin Wall. "Before me I saw a lunar landscape," he recalls. "I wanted to record this part of a country sentenced to death." As a commission for the German government for $50,000 (which he gave to children's charity), he painted his 1966 portrait of Konrad Adenauer as a figure illusory...
...this series of essays, New Yorker Correspondent Joseph Wechsberg examines seven of the world's leading merchant or investment bankers. Though he is himself the son and grandson of bankers, Wechsberg ignores a lot of the basics of the business and, with the exception of a chapter on Wall Street's Lehman Brothers, shortchanges the potent U.S. bankers to concentrate on those of London's City. But his stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody's compound interest...
...millions who watched the old man recite The Gift Outright at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, or learned to love Mending Wall or After Apple-Picking in their school days, Robert Frost was the serene, supremely benevolent country poet. A generation of interviewers had gorged themselves on his folksy humor and humble denims, on that familiar shock of untutored hair, those earthy accounts of his early scrabbling for a living from his New Hampshire poultry farm. Yet Frost also used to say: "I'm liable to tell you anything. Trust me in the poetry...
...most serious consequence of American control is that Canadans feel powerless to manage their own economic life. All Canadians realize that decisions made in Washington or on Wall Street, over which they have no influence, can affect their lives as much as decisions made in Ottawa or the provincial capitals...