Word: watt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cunning Anthology. Words without plot. They are drawn from Malone Dies and Malloy, from Watt, Embers, Krapp's Last Tape and Waiting for Godot, but no seams show. There is an incident with a white horse, another with a girl, both long ago. There is an anecdote about two old men, deep trouble, silent snowy night, also long ago. The present, for Beckett's tramp, seems a stretch of shingle beach, or a corner in Caliban's cell. There is an outrageously shaggy story about the arrangement of 16 pebbles in four pockets, which grows with...
...Derby, near the manufacturing towns of Birmingham and Sheffield, was an early center of industrialization, with an excitement all its own. Even as a child, Wright was fascinated by things mechanical. He made models of machines, clocks and guns, a tiny spinning wheel and a toy peep show. James Watt, the perfecter of the steam engine, John Wilkinson, the iron manufacturer who developed the cast-iron bridge, Sir Richard Arkwright, the wealthy cotton manufacturer who invented the spinning jenny, and Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is still synonymous with fine pottery, all lived near...
...opening contest. two bloop singles by Columbia's Doug Watt were the difference in a close pitching battle With two out in the final inning. Watt trickled a grounder through the middle to give the Lion's a 2-1 triumph...
With Gordon on third. Watt took two strikes and then on a checked swing. trickled the ball past shortstop Serrano to win the game...
...Your superb article on the environment [Feb. 2] will carry the message to millions who have not yet been reached by such clarion criers of alarm as Ecologists Cole, Commoner, Odum, Ehrlich and Watt. The tragedy is that a generation ago William Vogt (The Road to Survival) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) and two generations ago John...