Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the adventures of the author in various disguises, and this one (in which he bears the name Duluoz) fills in the Kerouac chronicle for the period just before On the Road was published. As the novel begins, the author is finishing a two-month squat as a fire watcher on a mountain in Washington. The mountain across the valley from Kerouac's cabin, when seen from upside down, looks like a "hanging bubble in the illimitable ocean of space." Why is it seen from upside down? Because the author is doing a headstand. Why is he standing...
...last week. They were headed just around the corner to vote in the municipal elections. Walking under a huge sign that read "Dobro Pozhalovat" (Welcome), Khrushchev waved off a voting official who signaled him to the head of the line. When he reached the table, a young woman poll watcher asked him for his identity papers before handing him his ballot. "Don't you trust me?" Khrushchev quipped. "Yes," said the girl with a blush, "of course we trust...
...Watchers & Watcher-Watchers. The voting took place in union halls across the U.S.; ballots were hand-marked and handcounted. There were poll watchers and watchers who watched the poll watchers. As the counting continued, there were claims of foul from both sides. The 3,000 Steelworkers of Puerto Rico, for example, complained that the bundle they had expected to contain ballots brought only campaign propaganda mailed from Abel's office...
After thirty minutes of bedlam, an engineer arrived and shut the water off at a central control. "Maybe we should send out a little white dove," a watcher suggested...
Married. John Crosby, 52, the New York Herald Tribune's longtime (1946-60), splenetic radio-TV columnist, now its London-based girl-watcher, social essayist and sporadic political pundit; and Katharine Wood, 26, former fashion editor of Edinburgh's staid Scotsman; he for the second time; in London...