Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocks in the Wind...
After an hour of swishing back and forth through the crowd, small groups settled in the grass close to the steps of Widener, stalks broken by the wind. One group was a choir of southern accents; to an ear usually stung by New England dipthongs, it was like hearing a debate between very courteous, very distant train whistles...
Next year Alfred takes a sabbatical from Harvard and already his calendar is filled with teaching stints across the country and with less academic projects such as openings in Dublin and London for Hogan and ("in the wind") a Paris production of Agamemnon with Ingrid Bergman as Clytemenestre. And what with all the hoopla, he feels it may be a good time to bring some more works out of the drawer. Already finished are 40 pages of a comedy about long Irish engagements in Brooklyn, and then there's the near inevitability of the Hogan's Goat scenario. "But after...
...vast landscapes, nature is an awesome thing, baking the treeless plains and flooding the valleys, drenching the jungles with monsoons, decimating populations with pestilence and plague. Life in this world has always been precarious. And the way to maintain it is the way of the bamboo before the wind-a graceful yielding...
...Timer. Fred Allen once called Wynn the funniest visual comedian of the day - and so he was. He ate corn by attaching it to a typewriter carriage, knocking it back every time he wanted to start a new row; he invented a wind shield wiper to be served with grape fruit; and an eleven-foot pole for people he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole...