Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Various clues-the single mistress, the lack of names and characterization, the fact that each of the four artists withers or dies after reaching renown-suggest what the author is up to. Goatish carnality is occasionally his medium, but he is writing about the mysterious web of past-present, the great arcs of possibility that bemuse a boy and, broken, haunt a man. His six characters are the mislaid and scattered pieces of one, the teacher who dreamed of painting, wrote a little, had a talent for music...
...burned its music in open trans cans for heat, the Cornell band sat in the Stadium playing scales to keep its instruments warm. Halftime came, with more cha-cha dances while the Big Red band marched from a map of the United States into a perfect replication of the web of a Black widow spider...
There are disadvantages. The typography is not quite as sharp, and, because we no longer print on our own web-fed flat-bed letterpress, our deadlines are slightly earlier. We hope to avoid the slanted columns and chopped-off letters of most offset college papers by maintaining a professional shop to do our paste-up, but if, like our Fogg friend, you've noticed some problems, please bear with...
Finally, if this kind of technical talk excites you, or even if it doesn't but you like to write, or even if you don't like to write but like free beer and pretzels, or if you want to see and touch one of the few remaining web-fed flat-bed letter presses in existence (even if it now stands idle), then come to a Crimson fall competition meeting tonight or tomorrow...
While Kennedy offered no concrete solutions to the present ills of America, or any clear program for voting out the current Administration, he did spin a web of rhetoric to ensnare President Nixon...