Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...umbrellas pick out a waltz, note for precise note, in two-part harmony. This brings the man and woman together. The cubes roll over again and become an automobile with painted wheels. The couple goes for a drive. The wheels spin. The girl's hair blows in the wind. Paper puffs of exhaust smoke head for the wings. The girl loses her scarf. The car backs up to retrieve it. The smoke reverses direction and goes back into the exhaust pipe. Love can do anything. Curtain...
...scholar who tries to swing softly, "to resonate, man." The gentle, yet persuasive, rhythm of Gov. 122b, his course covering African modernization, shows that he has succeeded. Naturally, as a "New Negro," Kilson is impassioned, knowing that answers to questions asked by his ancestors are now "blowing on the wind." But he sees passion as only part of his job; as a member of the academy, he must formulate the right questions and pin down specific answers. "The old horns of commitment and detachment set up no imposing dilemmas to the way I live or think. Being a Negro...
...Kennedy Round, which was originally expected to wind up its business this year, will run into 1965 or even 1966, and many issues may be left over for separate negotiations...
Hobbing's entire story describes a highly emotional, but very common situation. The girl, Carla, wants to "run down a hill with the wind in her hair" before having intercourse. The male goes along with her whim, for obvious reasons. But how genuine is the girl? Is she consciously acting? Is she deluding herself about love to justify sex? Is she really in love? This is a very real situation, and Hobbing's ability to recreate the ambiguity which surrounds it helps compensate for the story's stylistic failures...
...forces are forced to retreat to the south, Mr. Shin elects to remain with his congregation in Pyongyang. "We will give them their Christ and their Judas," Mr. Shin explains. For he has come to believe that what man needs is not the chill wind of reason, as the young narrator insists, but the healing balm of belief...