Word: westward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was over 40 years ago. But the poet, Robert Penn Warren, now 64, a double Pulitzer winner for poetry (Promises) and prose (All the King's Men), is still a believer in the resurrected, the Westward and the fabulous...
...unsentimentally identifies with them. In the all-embracing fraternity of failure, Audubon in some sense shares their guilt and their punishment. Now as reconciled to man as he has all along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment, to his "glory"-a favorite Warren word. Truly "Westward and fabulous," the painter's vision is shadowed only by the poet's darkly romantic hindsight on what was to follow: the Civil War and that other bugaboo of the Southern soul, industrialization...
...land was filled from the Public Garden westward, Bostonians erected the French Academism of Haussman's Paris, with mansard roofs and pedimented windows. Further west they built gabled Queen Anne houses in brick, and then the calmer white Neoclassicist homes. Finally, they returned to the Federalist style of an earlier America...
From New York, the Premier's El Al Airlines jet (christened by the crew "Golda a Go-Go") winged westward to Los Angeles. At a star-studded formal dinner, Jack Benny explained that he was acting as toastmaster "only because Bob Hope is a gentile." Golda, who is not a moviegoer, was a bit uneasy in the receiving line-unable to quite sort out the Kirk Douglases from the Rita Marrows. She realized that film stars and politicians have inflated egos, and that not being recognized is, for them, the crowning insult. Later, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos, who traveled...
...keep competitors from learning the size of their bids, the oilmen in the Anchorage Westward Hotel reserved rooms on either side of their own and the rooms above and below. A favorite joke around town went: "Are you in oil?" "No, I'm incognito." One company wrapped its bid in aluminum foil in case a competitor had an exotic camera capable of taking pictures through a manila envelope. Another consortium, headed up by Continental Oil, hired a private train at $12,500 a day to ply back and forth between Calgary and Edmonton for four days while executives prepared...