Word: driftwood
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Below his booted feet, the sculpture depicts the usual New England seacoast litter: seashells, a fiddler crab or two, strands of kelp, and driftwood. What captures most passersby, however, is a quotation of Morison's engraved on a rock at his left side: "Dream dreams, then write them down-aye, but live them first...
...oscillate between two moral poles. The left brain says, "Nothing human is foreign to me," a dictum that floats in like elegant driftwood from the second century B.C., when the Roman playwright Terence said it. The line describes the ideal state of today's movie and television audience: a morally promiscuous and passive receptivity, a tolerant consumer's connoisseurship of vice and weirdness...
...baseball, was a member of the gourmet club. A picture in his yearbook shows him standing under a white chef's hat. He graduated in 1977 and soon got a job as a cook, first at Reardon's, a local pub owned by a cousin, and then at the Driftwood restaurant, where he met Carol DiMaiti, a dark- haired, lively waitress and the only daughter of Giusto DiMaiti, who tended bar there...
While the Driftwood was a rung on Charles' career ladder, it was just a summer job for Carol, who had been an outstanding student at Medford high school and a member of the National Honor Society. An honors graduate of Boston College, she was working at the Driftwood to help pay her way through Boston's Suffolk Law School...
...that, though it left two dead and 45 injured, did not feel especially severe. A greater shock awaited at the bottom of the escape slide. Said social worker Larry Martin of Brooklyn: "When we got off, we were in the water." Passengers who could not swim held on to driftwood or each other, while many clambered on to the aircraft's broken fuselage until rescue boats arrived...