Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminiscent of the moral code expressed in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, otherwise known as Fanny Hill, the celebrated 18th century pornographic novel now freely available in the U.S. One of the principals "considered pleasure, of one sort or another, as the universal port of destination, and every wind that blew thither a good one, provided it blew nobody any harm...
WHITNEY-22 West 54th. The museum's annual weather vane of the winds of contemporary U.S. art shows that nothing that gets into the vocabulary of painting ever gets out: realism in varieties from Social to Pop; expressionism in forms from New York abstract to the tough geometry of hard-edge painting; impressionism from still lifes to mental landscapes. Rather than prove that the wind blows strongest from any compass point, the Annual proves that it is rising everywhere. Through...
...Florida A.& M.'s Bob Hayes, 21: the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., tying his own world record, over a slow, rain-soaked track at the Orange Bowl track meet. A 10-m.p.h. wind made it all unofficial, but Hayes also splashed through the 220 in 20.1 sec.-just .1 sec. off Dave Sime's world mark-even though he slowed down to avoid crashing into spectators at the finish line...
...hours of it, the young man suddenly feels empty, light, free: free of the past, free of his own galling limitations, free of his existence even, free as a bird and like a bird he longs to spread his wings and fly, fly! "Faster!" he shouts into the shouting wind. "Go faster!" The playboy, catching his mood, laughs with a mad demonic exultation and pushes the pedal to the floor. Ninety, a hundred. "Faster!" Laughing, the playboy swings out to pass...
...write really rattling letters to any son past the age of twelve. Significantly, the best letters toward the end of the book are the ones written to small children, including the notes from Kenneth Grahame to his four-year-old son Alistair that were the genesis of The Wind in the Willows. "My Darling Mouse-Have you heard about the toad? He has vanished and everyone is looking for him, including the police. I fear he is a bad low animal...