Word: weaverization
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...Paul Weaver...
...WATCHER AND OTHER STORIES by Italo Calvino. Translated by William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun. 181 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...something special in the way children congregate around the big tree and roller skate on only one foot? Is something special when they swing their arms downward and slap spinning wooden tops at one's feet? Is something special in the perpetual squabbling of the basket weaver and the mad woman who clutches her groin when strangers pass by? Is something special in the white fisherman who speaks with pride of his people (old Tories) and shares his catch with his less fortunate black comrades? Is something special in the "slows" of the bartender who takes half an hour...
...contrast to the islands was unfair, but in three hours I had changed worlds, and I was forced to make comparisons. Were the Gucci shoes and the Lilly sportcoat as expressive as the proud fisherman's beard and straw hat? And the weaver and the crazy woman-was their squabble the same as a joust of honking between a Mercedes and a Bentley? No, emphatically, no. Not Palm Beach: this extravagance could not have the same depth as the simple, slow, island rituals. The islanders' foibles had communicated their self-knowledge. Here, I felt that the foilbes denied that knowledge...
Jones also announced that the black community had met Sunday and nominated two men, Rev. John Bryant and Roosevelt R. Weaver, to represent it on the committee. Corcoran has not yet named anyone from the city to serve on the board...