Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head off, and shoot 31 minutes of rapids in a hollow...
...master does little talking, even when teaching a new dance. "Now we shall work with arms," he will say, helpfully turning his own into overcooked asparagus. The dancers copy. "Isn't it selfish of you," he will ask, "to expect 3,000 people to sit and watch you lift your leg if you're not going to do it beautifully...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. April 25--A gaily bedecked and somewhat besotted crowd of spring celebrants invaded Aldrich Dexter field today to watch the Brown lacrosse team rough up "the Crimson weanies...
...vision of the spire is divinely inspired - but Golding insistently suggests that it may just as well be a phallic sublimation of Jocelin's repressed yearnings for the red-haired wife of a cathedral worker. Even the warming presence of an angel who, Jocelin believes, comes to watch over him as he prays is explained away as the effect on his spine of some un speakable organic disease...
After that trip, I've sailed on deck, with what is usually considered a better class of people. It might be profitable to explain ship (union) politics, or the sickness of the shipping industry, or what one actually does on a watch. (For the last item, as an ordinary seaman: 4 hours lookout, 2 hours standby and general labor, and perhaps 2 hours wheel-watch). But I'm seeking what is specific to the summertime sailor's experience; of which an infuriating helpless sympathy is a large part. They condemn you and your innocence, and still worship your education; Beretta...